John 15:12-27

New American Standard Bible

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹²“This is ^(A)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³^(B)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will ^(C)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are My ^(D)friends if ^(E)you do what I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because ^(F)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶^(G)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(H)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(I)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷This ^(J)I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸“^(K)If the world hates you, ^[a]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(L)I chose you out of the world, ^(M)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(N)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(O)they will persecute you as well; if they ^(P)followed My word, they will follow yours also. ²¹But all these things they will do to you ^(Q)on account of My name, ^(R)because they do not know the One who sent Me. ²²^(S)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[b]sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³The one who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴^(T)If I had not done among them ^(U)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[c]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵But this has happened so that the word that is written in their ^(V)Law will be fulfilled: ‘^(W)They hated Me for no reason.’

²⁶“When the ^[d]^(X)Helper comes, ^(Y)whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, ^(Z)the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, ^(AA)He will testify about Me, ²⁷and ^[e]^(AB)you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me ^(AC)from the beginning.