John 15:11-21

11 These things I have spoken to you, ¹that my joy may be in you, and that ²your joy may be full.

12 ³“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 ⁴Greater love has no one than this, ⁵that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are ⁶my friends ⁷if you do what I command you.

15 ⁸No longer do I call you servants, ^[a] for the servant^{[b] 9}does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ¹⁰all that I have heard from my Father ¹¹I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but ¹²I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ¹³bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ¹⁴whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ¹⁵so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 ¹⁶“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 ¹⁷If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ¹⁸you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you: ¹⁹‘A servant is not greater than his master. ’ If they persecuted me, ²⁰they will also persecute you. ²¹If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21 But ²²all these things they will do to you ²³on account of my name, ²⁴because they do not know him who sent me.

Cross References

• 1. 15:11 [2 Cor. 2:3]
• 2. 15:11 ch. 3:29; 16:24; 17:13; 1 John 1:4; 2 John 12
• 3. 15:12 See ch. 13:34
• 4. 15:13 Rom. 5:7, 8; Eph. 5:2
• 5. 15:13 See ch. 10:11
• 6. 15:14 Luke 12:4
• 7. 15:14 [ver. 10; Matt. 12:50]
• 8. 15:15 [ver. 20]
• 9. 15:15 [ch. 13:7, 12]
• 10. 15:15 ch. 3:32; 8:26, 40; [ch. 16:13]
• 11. 15:15 ch. 17:26; [Gen. 18:17; 1 Cor. 2:16; 13:9, 10]
• 12. 15:16 See ch. 13:18
• 13. 15:16 [2 John 8]
• 14. 15:16 [ver. 7]; See ch. 14:13
• 15. 15:17 ver. 12
• 16. 15:18 ch. 7:7; 1 John 3:13; [ver. 23, 24]
• 17. 15:19 [1 John 4:5]
• 18. 15:19 ch. 17:14, 16; [Luke 6:26; Gal. 1:4; James 4:4]
• 19. 15:20 ch. 13:16; Matt. 10:24; [ver. 15]
• 20. 15:20 ch. 16:33; 1 Cor. 4:12; 2 Cor. 4:9; 1 Thess. 2:15; 2 Tim. 3:12
• 21. 15:20 [Ezek. 3:7]; See ch. 8:51
• 22. 15:21 ch. 16:3
• 23. 15:21 Matt. 10:22; 24:9; Rev. 2:3; [Acts 5:41; 1 Pet. 4:14, 16]
• 24. 15:21 See Acts 3:17

Footnotes

• [a] 15:15 Greek 'bondservants'
• [b] 15:15 Greek 'bondservant'; also verse 20