Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(A)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^(C)that your joy may be full. ^12 (D)This is My ^(E)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (F)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14 (G)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^(H)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (I)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(J)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(K)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

^18 (L)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19 (M)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^(N)because 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, ^(O)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^(P)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But ^(Q)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ^22 (R)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, ^(S)but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (T)He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them ^(U)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^(V)seen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵ But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ^(W)‘They hated Me without a cause.’