15:14

You are My friends if you do what I command you: These clauses indicate that Jesus’ friends are those who obey what he told them to do. For example:

And you are my friends, if you obey me. (Contemporary English Version)
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You are my friends if you do what I tell you to do. (Phillips’ New Testament in Modern English)

General Comment on 15:14

In some languages it is more natural to put the last part of the sentence before the first. For example:

If you do what I tell you to do, then you are my friends. (TH)

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