John 15:12-27

Disciples' Relation to Each Other

12 "This is ¹My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

13 "²Greater love has no one than this, that one ³lay down his life for his friends.

14 "You are My ⁴friends if ⁵you do what I command you.

15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ⁶all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

16 "⁷You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ⁸bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ⁹whatever * * you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

17 "This ¹⁰I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples' Relation to the World

18 "¹¹If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

19 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ¹²I chose you out of the world, ¹³because of this * the world hates you.

20 "Remember the word that I said to you, '¹⁴A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, ¹⁵they will also persecute you; if they ¹⁶kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21 "But all these things they will do to you ¹⁷for My name's sake, ¹⁸because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22 "¹⁹If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 "He who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 "²⁰If I had not done among them ²¹the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

25 "But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their ²²Law, '²³THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'

26 "When the ²⁴Helper comes, ²⁵whom I will send to you from the Father, that is ²⁶the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ²⁷He will testify about Me,

27 and ²⁸you will testify also, because you have been with Me ²⁹from the beginning.

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Cross References 29

1. John 13:34; John 15:17; 1 John 3:23; 2 John 5
2. Romans 5:7
3. John 10:11
4. Luke 12:4
5. Matthew 12:50
6. John 8:26; John 16:12
7. John 6:70; John 13:18; John 15:19
8. John 15:5
9. John 14:13; John 15:7; John 16:23
10. John 15:12
11. John 7:7; 1 John 3:13
12. John 15:16
13. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; John 17:14
14. Matthew 10:24; John 13:16
15. 1 Corinthians 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:9; 2 Timothy 3:12
16. John 8:51
17. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; Mark 13:13; Luke 21:12, 17; Acts 4:17; Acts 5:41; Acts 9:14; Acts 26:9; 1 Peter 4:14; Revelation 2:3
18. John 8:19, 55; John 16:3; John 17:25; Acts 3:17; 1 John 3:1
19. John 9:41; John 15:24
20. John 9:41; John 15:21
21. John 5:36; John 10:37
22. John 10:34
23. Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4
24. John 14:16
25. John 14:26
26. John 14:17
27. 1 John 5:7
28. Luke 24:48; John 19:35; John 21:24; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 4:14
29. Luke 1:2

Footnotes 5

[a]. Or (imperative) "know that"
[b]. I.e. guilt
[c]. I.e. guilt
[d]. Gr "Paracletos", one called alongside to help; or "Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor"
[e]. Or (imperative) "and bear witness"