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.

Cross References

• 1. 15:8 Isa. 61:3; Matt. 5:16; 2 Cor. 9:13; Phil. 1:11
• 2. 15:8 ver. 5
• 3. 15:9 See ch. 5:20
• 4. 15:9 See ch. 13:34
• 5. 15:10 [ch. 14:15, 23]
• 6. 15:10 ch. 8:55; 17:4; Phil. 2:8
• 7. 15:10 See ch. 10:18
• 8. 15:11 [2 Cor. 2:3]
• 9. 15:11 ch. 3:29; 16:24; 17:13; 1 John 1:4; 2 John 12
• 10. 15:12 See ch. 13:34
• 11. 15:13 Rom. 5:7, 8; Eph. 5:2
• 12. 15:13 See ch. 10:11
• 13. 15:14 Luke 12:4
• 14. 15:14 [ver. 10; Matt. 12:50]
• 15. 15:15 [ver. 20]
• 16. 15:15 [ch. 13:7, 12]
• 17. 15:15 ch. 3:32; 8:26, 40; [ch. 16:13]
• 18. 15:15 ch. 17:26; [Gen. 18:17; 1 Cor. 2:16; 13:9, 10]
• 19. 15:16 See ch. 13:18
• 20. 15:16 [2 John 8]
• 21. 15:16 [ver. 7]; See ch. 14:13
• 22. 15:17 ver. 12
• 23. 15:18 ch. 7:7; 1 John 3:13; [ver. 23, 24]

Footnotes

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