John 14:15 (LSB)

Passage

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Nearby Context

John 14:13 Whatever you ask in My name, this will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

John 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, that He may be with you forever;

John 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him because He abides with you and will 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 ask Me anything in My..." 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.