John 15:14 (WEB)
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
Catechism · 2
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“In every liturgical action the Holy Spirit is sent in order to bring us into communion with Christ and so to form his Body. the Holy Spirit is like the sap of the Father's vine which bears fruit on its branches.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 15:1-17; Gal 5:22.
Man's Response to God
“By his Revelation, "the invisible God, from the fullness of his love, addresses men as his friends, and moves among them, in order to invite and receive them into his own company."” — Catechism footnote: DV 2; cf. Col 1:15; I Tim 1:17; Ex 33:11; Jn 15:14-15; Bar 3:38 (Vulg.).
Fathers and councils · 29
John Damascene
“So that they are no longer servants, but sons: and if sons, also heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ: and the Lord in the holy Gospels says to His apostles, Ye are My friends.” — editor's note: St. John xv. 14.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.12Conference XI
“…for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I call you friends, for all things whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.”” — editor's note: S. John xv. 14, 15.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For if in the sacrifice which Christ offered none is to be followed but Christ, assuredly it behoves us to obey and do that which Christ did, and what He commanded to be done, since He Himself says in the Gospel, “If ye do whatsoever I command you, henceforth I call you not servants, but friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 14, 15.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Nay, but Thou, O Truth, wouldst never have deceived men, least of all them whom Thou didst call friends.” — editor's note: S. John xv. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“God Himself makes us friends instead of servants, as He Himself says: “Ye are My friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.”” — editor's note: S. John xv. 14.
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John Chrysostom
“For “ye are My friends” (he says) “if ye do what I say to you.” ( John xv. 14.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And again, “I call you friends” ( John xv. 14 ), not when ye cast out demons, but “if ye keep My words.”” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Hear what He saith to His disciples, “Henceforth I call you not servants, ye are My friends.” ( c. xv. 14, 15.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“And elsewhere too He said, “Henceforth I call you not servants; ye are my friends.”” — editor's note: John xv. 15, 14.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Having said, If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love, He shews what commandments they are to keep: This is My commandment, That ye love one another.
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But when all our Lord’s sacred discourses are full of His commandments, why does He give this special commandment respecting love, if it is not that every commandment teaches love, and all precepts are one? Love and…
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Where then love is, what can be wanting? where it is not, what can profit? But this love is distinguished from men’s love to each other as men, by adding, As I have loved you. To what end did Christ love us, but that…
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The highest, the only proof of love, is to love our adversary; as did the Truth Himself, who while He suffered on the cross, shewed His love for His persecutors: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.…
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Having said, This is My commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you, it follows, as John saith in his Epistle, that as Christ laid down His life for us, so we should lay down our lives for the…
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But whoso in time of tranquillity will not give up his time to God, how in persecution will he give up his soul? Let the virtue of love then, that it may be victorious in tribulation, be nourished in tranquillity by…
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From one and the same love, we love God and our neighbour; but God for His own sake, our neighbour for God’s. So that, there being two precepts of love, on which hang all the Law and the Prophets, to love God, and to…
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A friend is as it were a keeper of the soul. He who keeps God’s commandments, is rightly called His friend.
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Great condescension! Though to keep his Lord’s commandments, is only what a good servant is obliged to do, yet, if they do so, He calls them His friends. The good servant is both the servant, and the friend. But how…
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As if He said, The servant knoweth not the counsels of his lord; but since I esteem you friends, I have communicated my secrets to you.
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But how did He make known to His disciples all things that He had heard from the Father, when He forebore saying many things, because He knew they as yet could not bear them? He made all things known to His…
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Or all things which He heard from the Father, which He wished to be made known to His servants; the joys of spiritual love, the pleasures of our heavenly country, which He impresses daily on our minds by the…
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All things, i. e. all things that they ought to hear. I have heard, shews that what He had taught was no strange doctrine, but received from the Father.
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But let no one who has attained to this dignity of being called the friend of God, attribute this superhuman gift1 to his own merits: Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.
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Ineffable grace! For what were we before Christ had chosen us, but wicked, and lost? We did not believe in Him, so as to be chosen by Him: for had He chosen us believing, He would have chosen us choosing. This…
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They are chosen then before the foundation of the world, according to that predestination by which God foreknew His future acts. They are chosen out of the world by that call whereby God fulfills what He has…
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Observe, He does not choose the good; but those, whom He hath chosen, He makes good: And I have ordained you that ye should go, and bring forth fruit. This is the fruit which He meant, when He said, Without Me ye can…
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I have set you,i. e. have planted you by grace, that ye should go by will (volendo not in Vulg.); to will being to go in mind, and bring forth fruit, by works. What kind of fruit they should bring forth He then…
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Love then is one fruit, now existing in desire only, not yet in fulness. Yet even with this desire whatever we ask in the name of the Only-Begotten Son, the Father giveth us: That whatsoever ye shall ask the Father…
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 15:12–16 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in Catechism §142.
Cited together in Catechism §142.
Cited together in Catechism §142.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.22.