John Calvin Commentary John 15:14

"Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you." — John 15:14 (ASV)

You are my friends (John 15:14). He does not mean that we obtain so great an honor by our own merit, but only reminds them of the condition on which he receives us into favor, and condescends to count us among his friends; as he said a little before,

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, (John 15:10).

For the grace of God our Savior hath appeared, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously, in this world, (Titus 2:11).

But ungodly men, who, through wicked contempt of the Gospel, wantonly oppose Christ, renounce his friendship.