John 15:8-18

8 ¹By this my Father is glorified, that you ²bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

9 ³As the Father has loved me, ⁴so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

10 ⁵If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ⁶I have kept ⁷my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

11 These things I have spoken to you, ⁸that my joy may be in you, and that ⁹your joy may be full.

12 ¹⁰“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 ¹¹Greater love has no one than this, ¹²that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are ¹³my friends ¹⁴if you do what I command you.

15 ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, ^[a] for the servant^{[b] 16}does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ¹⁷all that I have heard from my Father ¹⁸I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but ¹⁹I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ²⁰bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ²¹whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ²²so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 ²³“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.