⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words ^(A)abide in you, ^(B)you^[a] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ^8 (C)By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; ^(D)so you will be My disciples.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(E)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (F)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 ^(G)that your joy may be full. ^12 (H)This is My ^(I)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (J)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14 (K)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, ^(L)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (M)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(N)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(O)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

^18 (P)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19 (Q)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^(R)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, ^(S)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^(T)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But ^(U)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ^22 (V)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, ^(W)but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (X)He who hates Me hates My Father also.

Jesus Teaches the Fear of God^(A)

^4 (B)“And I say to you, ^(C)My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

²² saying, ^(A)“The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”

Take Up the Cross and Follow Him^(B)

^23 (C)Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross ^[a]daily, and follow Me. ^24 (D)For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. ^25 (E)For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

Take Up the Cross and Follow Him^(A)

³⁴ When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, ^(B)“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. ³⁵ For ^(C)whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. ³⁶ For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? ³⁷ Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? ^38 (D)For whoever ^(E)is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

³¹ And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of ^(A)little faith, why did you doubt?” ³² And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

³³ Then those who were in the boat ^[a]came and worshiped Him, saying, “Truly ^(B)You are the Son of God.”

³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³ But ^(A)seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

³⁶ Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. ³⁷ And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. ³⁸ But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, ^(A)“Teacher, ^(B)do You not care that we are perishing?”

³⁹ Then He arose and ^(C)rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ^(D)“Peace,^[a] be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? ^(E)How^[b] is it that you have no faith?”