John 15:8-16

8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

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Cross References 13

  • 1. S Matthew 9:8; Matthew 5:16
  • 2. John 8:31
  • 3. Jn 17:23,24,26
  • 4. S John 14:15
  • 5. S John 3:29; John 17:13
  • 6. ver 17; S John 13:34
  • 7. Genesis 44:33; John 10:11; Romans 5:7,8
  • 8. Job 16:20; Proverbs 18:24; Luke 12:4
  • 9. Matthew 12:50
  • 10. John 8:26
  • 11. ver 19; John 6:70; John 13:18
  • 12. ver 5
  • 13. S Matthew 7:7
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