John 15:12-17

Disciples' Relation to Each Other

12 "This is 1My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
13 "2Greater love has no one than this, that one 3lay down his life for his friends.
14 "You are My 4friends if 5you 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 6all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16 "7You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and 8bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that 9whatever * * you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
17 "This 10I command you, that you love one another.

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Cross References 10

  • 1. John 13:34; John 15:17; 1 John 3:23; 2 John 5
  • 2. Romans 5:7
  • 3. John 10:11
  • 4. Luke 12:4
  • 5. Matthew 12:50
  • 6. John 8:26; John 16:12
  • 7. John 6:70; John 13:18; John 15:19
  • 8. John 15:5
  • 9. John 14:13; John 15:7; John 16:23
  • 10. John 15:12
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