John 15:15-19

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁵ I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master^[a](A) is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you.^(B) I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^(C) the Father in my name,^(D) he will give you.^(E)

¹⁷ “This is what I command you: Love one another.

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁸ “If the world hates^(F) you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen^(G) you out of it, the world hates you.