John 15:12–27 · BSB
15:12
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
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15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
15:17
This is My command to you: Love one another.
15:18
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
15:19
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
15:20
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
15:21
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
15:23
Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
15:24
If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
15:25
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
15:26
When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.
15:27
And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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