John 15:9-17

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.

Cross References

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

Footnotes

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