John 15:12-21

New King James Version

^12 (A)This is My ^(B)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (C)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14 (D)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, ^(E)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (F)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(G)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(H)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

^18 (I)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19 (J)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^(K)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, ^(L)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^(M)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But ^(N)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.