John 15:9-25

New International Version

⁹ “As the Father has loved me,^(A) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands,^(B) 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.^{(C) 12} My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^{(D) 13} Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^{(E) 14} You are my friends^(F) if you do what I command.^{(G) 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.^{(H) 16} You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you^(I) so that you might go and bear fruit^(J)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.^{(K) 17} This is my command: Love each other.^(L)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(M) 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^(N) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^{(O) 20} Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a](P) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(Q) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹ They will treat you this way because of my name,^(R) for they do not know the one who sent me.^{(S) 22} If I had not come and spoken to them,^(T) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(U) 23} Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(V) they would not be guilty of sin.^(W) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(X) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[b](Y)