If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments

Love for Jesus is expressed as obedience and abiding.

Jesus binds love to obedience: those who love him keep his words, abide in him, and live by the love he commands.

Scripture

John 14:15

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:10

10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.