(A)By this my Father is glorified, that you (B)bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. (C)As the Father has loved me, (D)so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 (E)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as (F)I have kept (G)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, (H)that my joy may be in you, and that (I)your joy may be full.

12 (J)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 (K)Greater love has no one than this, (L)that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are (M)my friends (N)if you do what I command you. 15 (O)No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant (P)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for (Q)all that I have heard from my Father (R)I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but (S)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and (T)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that (U)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, (V)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 (W)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 (X)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because (Y)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: (Z)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, (AA)they will also persecute you. (AB)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But (AC)all these things they will do to you (AD)on account of my name, (AE)because they do not know him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, (AF)they would not have been guilty of sin,[b] but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (AG)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 (AH)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, (AI)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have (AJ)seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But (AK)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: (AL)‘They hated me without a cause.’

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:15 Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20
  2. John 15:22 Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24

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