John 13:15
“For I haue giuen you an example, that yee should doe, as I haue done to you.”
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John 13:15 Context
13Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well: for so I am. 14If I then your Lord and Master haue washed your feete, yee also ought to wash one anothers feete. 15For I haue giuen you an example, that yee should doe, as I haue done to you. 16Uerily, verily I say vnto you, the seruant is not greater then his lord, neither he that is sent, greater then hee that sent him. 17If yee know these things, happy are ye if ye doe them.
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Other Translations for John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
- King James Version
"For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.
- American Standard Version (1901)
I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.
- Basic English Bible
for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also.
- Darby Bible
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
- Webster's Bible
For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.
- Weymouth Bible
For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
- World English Bible
for Y haue youun `ensaumple to you, `that as I haue do to you, so do ye.
- Wycliffe Bible
`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for John 13:15
Joh 13:15 For I have given you an example. Christ gave an example, not a church ordinance. It is our duty to follow the example and render the same kind of service to fellow Christians. To make his example a ceremonial and follow it literally would be to lose its spirit. Note the fact that not once else where is it referred to in the New Testament as a church ordinance, and only once mentioned at all. It is named as a mark of a godly widow in 1Ti 5:10. Nor is there any mention of it as a church ordinance until the fourth century. The lesson is that he who would be greatest must be always ready to serve others in a spirit of humility and self-sacrifice.