John 14:15 (DRB)

Passage

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Nearby Context

John 14:13 Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:14 If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do.

John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:16 And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever:

John 14:17 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "love", "keep", and "commandments". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "love" and "keep", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 14's "If you shall ask me any thing..." into verse 16's "And I will ask the Father and...", so "love" and "keep" belong inside that flow. In John context, the local focus is the identity of Jesus, new birth, eternal life, and belief and unbelief.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "love" and "keep" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.