10 (A)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as (B)I have kept (C)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, (D)that my joy may be in you, and that (E)your joy may be full.

12 (F)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 (G)Greater love has no one than this, (H)that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are (I)my friends (J)if you do what I command you. 15 (K)No longer do I call you servants,[a] for the servant (L)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for (M)all that I have heard from my Father (N)I have made known to you.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:15 Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20

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