015:008 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples.
015:009 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you.
Remain in my love.
015:010 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain
in his love.
015:011 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you,
and that your joy may be made full.
015:012 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I
have loved you.
015:013 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his
life for his friends.
015:014 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
015:015 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't
know what his lord does. But I have called you friends,
for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made
known to you.
015:016 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you
should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain;
that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it to you.
015:017 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
015:018 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before
it hated you.
015:019 If you were of the world, the world would love its own.
But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out
of the world, therefore the world hates you.
015:020 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not
greater than his lord.'{John 13:16} If they persecuted me,
they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,
they will keep yours also.
015:021 But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake,
because they don't know him who sent me.
015:022 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin;
but now they have no excuse for their sin.
015:023 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
015:024 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did,
they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also
hated both me and my Father.
015:025 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled
which was written in their law, 'They hated me without
a cause.'{Psalms 35:19; 69:4}
015:026 "When the Counselor{Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper,
Advocate, Intercessor, and Comfortor.} has come, whom I
will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth,
who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
015:027 You will also testify, because you have been with me
from the beginning.
016:001 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't
be caused to stumble.
016:002 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes
that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
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