John 15:8-21

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.

17 This is my command: Love each other.

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

Cross References

• 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
• 14. ver 12
• 15. Isaiah 66:5; John 7:7; 1 John 3:13
• 16. ver 16
• 17. John 17:14
• 18. S John 13:16
• 19. 2 Timothy 3:12
• 20. Isaiah 66:5; Matthew 5:10,11; Matthew 10:22; Luke 6:22; Acts 5:41; 1 Peter 4:14; Revelation 2:3
• 21. John 16:3

Footnotes

• [a]. John 13:16