John 15:12-17

12 ¹“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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

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

15 ⁶No longer do I call you servants, ^[a] for the servant^{[b] 7}does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ⁸all that I have heard from my Father ⁹I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but ¹⁰I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ¹¹bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ¹²whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ¹³so that you will love one another.

Cross References

• 1. 15:12 See ch. 13:34
• 2. 15:13 Rom. 5:7, 8; Eph. 5:2
• 3. 15:13 See ch. 10:11
• 4. 15:14 Luke 12:4
• 5. 15:14 [ver. 10; Matt. 12:50]
• 6. 15:15 [ver. 20]
• 7. 15:15 [ch. 13:7, 12]
• 8. 15:15 ch. 3:32; 8:26, 40; [ch. 16:13]
• 9. 15:15 ch. 17:26; [Gen. 18:17; 1 Cor. 2:16; 13:9, 10]
• 10. 15:16 See ch. 13:18
• 11. 15:16 [2 John 8]
• 12. 15:16 [ver. 7]; See ch. 14:13
• 13. 15:17 ver. 12

Footnotes

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