John 15:12–27
12 This is my commandment, sThat ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 tGreater love hath no man than this, uthat a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are xmy friends, yif ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that zI have heard of my Father aI have made known unto you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but bI have chosen you, and cordained you, that ye should go and dbring forth fruit, and that eyour fruit should remain: that fwhatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, gthat ye love one another. 18 If hthe world hate you, ye know that it hated me ibefore it hated you. 19 kIf ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but lbecause ye are not of the world, but bI have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, mThe servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, nthey will also persecute you; oif they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But pall these things will they do unto you qfor my name’s sake, rbecause they know not him that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, sthey had not had sin: tbut now they have no ||ucloke for their sin. 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them xthe works which none other man did, sthey had not had sin: but now have they both yseen and zhated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in atheir law, bThey hated me without a cause. 26 But when cthe Comforter is come, dwhom I will send unto you from the Father, even ethe Spirit of truth, dwhich proceedeth from the Father, fhe shall testify of me: 27 And gye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me hfrom the beginning.