John 15:9-19

9 ¹As the Father has loved me, ²so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

10 ³If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ⁴I have kept ⁵my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

11 These things I have spoken to you, ⁶that my joy may be in you, and that ⁷your joy may be full.

12 ⁸"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 ⁹Greater love has no one than this, ¹⁰that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are ¹¹my friends ¹²if you do what I command you.

15 ¹³No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant^[b] ¹⁴ does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ¹⁵all that I have heard from my Father ¹⁶I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but ¹⁷I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ¹⁸bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ¹⁹whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ²⁰so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 ²¹"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 ²²If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ²³you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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