John 15:11-20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹¹ I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^(A)

¹² “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.^{(B) 13} No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^{(C) 14} You are my friends if you do what I command you.^{(D) 15} I do not call you servants^[a] any longer, because the servant^[b] does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.^{(E) 17} I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.^{(F) 19} If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.^(G)