John 15:13-18

English Standard Version

^13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, ^(B)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(C)my friends ^(D)if you do what I command you. ^15 (E)No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant ^(F)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(G)all that I have heard from my Father ^(H)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(I)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(J)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(K)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, ^(L)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18 (M)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.