John 15:11-27

New American Standard Bible 1995

^11 (A)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(B)joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹² “This is ^(C)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ^13 (D)Greater love has no one than this, that one ^(E)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My ^(F)friends if ^(G)you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(H)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (I)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(J)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(K)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷ This ^(L)I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸ “^(M)If the world hates you, ^[a]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(N)I chose you out of the world, ^(O)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(P)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(Q)they will also persecute you; if they ^(R)kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you ^(S)for My name’s sake, ^(T)because they do not know the One who sent Me. ^22 (U)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[b]sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ^24 (V)If I had not done among them ^(W)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[c]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵ But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their ^(X)Law, ‘^(Y)They hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶ “When the ^[d](Z)Helper comes, ^(AA)whom I will send to you from the Father, that is ^(AB)the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(AC)He will testify about Me, ^27 [e]and ^(AD)you will testify also, because you have been with Me ^(AE)from the beginning.