| Chapter 15 |
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If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. |
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These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled. |
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This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. |
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Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
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You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. |
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I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. |
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You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. |
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These things I command you, that you love one another. |
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If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. |
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If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. |
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Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. |
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But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him who sent me. |
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If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. |
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He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. |
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If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. |
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But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause. |
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But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me. |
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And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. |
