Love and Joy Perfected

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

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Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. 12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you. 15 No longer do I call you [a]servants; for the [b]servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you. 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:15 Greek bondservants.
  2. John 15:15 Greek bondservant.