New American Standard Bible 1995

John 15:9-27

9Just as 1the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 2If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as 3I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 4These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your 5joy may be made full.

12“This is 6My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 7Greater love has no one than this, that one 8lay down his life for his friends. 14You are My 9friends if 10you 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, for 11all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 12You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and 13bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that 14whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17This 15I command you, that you love one another.

18“16If the world hates you, 17you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but 18I chose you out of the world, 19because of this the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘20A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, 21they will also persecute you; if they 22kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you 23for My name’s sake, 24because they do not know the One who sent Me. 22 25If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have 26sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 27If I had not done among them 28the works which no one else did, they would not have 29sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. 25But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their 30Law, ‘31They hated Me without a cause.’

26“When the 32 33Helper comes, 34whom I will send to you from the Father, that is 35the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, 36He will testify about Me, 27 37and 38you will testify also, because you have been with Me 39from the beginning.

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Notes

1. John 15:9 John 3:35; 17:23, 24, 26 ↩
2. John 15:10 John 14:15 ↩
3. John 15:10 John 8:29 ↩
4. John 15:11 John 17:13 ↩
5. John 15:11 John 3:29 ↩
6. John 15:12 John 13:34; 15:17; 1 John 3:23; 2 John 5 ↩
7. John 15:13 Rom 5:7f ↩
8. John 15:13 John 10:11 ↩
9. John 15:14 Luke 12:4 ↩
10. John 15:14 Matt 12:50 ↩
11. John 15:15 John 8:26; 16:12 ↩
12. John 15:16 John 6:70; 13:18; 15:19 ↩
13. John 15:16 John 15:5 ↩
14. John 15:16 John 14:13; 15:7; 16:23 ↩
15. John 15:17 John 15:12 ↩
16. John 15:18 John 7:7; 1 John 3:13 ↩
17. John 15:18 Or (imperative) know that ↩
18. John 15:19 John 15:16 ↩
19. John 15:19 Matt 10:22; 24:9; John 17:14 ↩
20. John 15:20 Matt 10:24; John 13:16 ↩
21. John 15:20 1 Cor 4:12; 2 Cor 4:9; 2 Tim 3:12 ↩
22. John 15:20 John 8:51 ↩
23. John 15:21 Matt 10:22; 24:9; Mark 13:13; Luke 21:12, 17; Acts 4:17; 5:41; 9:14; 26:9; 1 Pet 4:14; Rev 2:3 ↩
24. John 15:21 John 8:19, 55; 16:3; 17:25; Acts 3:17; 1 John 3:1 ↩
25. John 15:22 John 9:41; 15:24 ↩
26. John 15:22 I.e. guilt ↩
27. John 15:24 John 9:41; 15:21 ↩
28. John 15:24 John 5:36; 10:37 ↩
29. John 15:24 I.e. guilt ↩
30. John 15:25 John 10:34 ↩
31. John 15:25 Ps 35:19; 69:4 ↩
32. John 15:26 Gr Paracletos, one called alongside to help; or Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor ↩
33. John 15:26 John 14:16 ↩
34. John 15:26 John 14:26 ↩
35. John 15:26 John 14:17 ↩
36. John 15:26 1 John 5:7 ↩
37. John 15:27 Or (imperative) and bear witness ↩
38. John 15:27 Luke 24:48; John 19:35; 21:24; 1 John 1:2; 4:14 ↩
39. John 15:27 Luke 1:2 ↩

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