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

The Hatred of the World

18 (N)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 (O)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because (P)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: (Q)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, (R)they will also persecute you. (S)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But (T)all these things they will do to you (U)on account of my name, (V)because they do not know him who sent me.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:15 Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20

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