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John 15:14–15

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14You are smy friends tif you do what I command you. 15uNo longer do I call you servants,1 for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for xall that I have heard from my Father yI have made known to you.

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John 15:15: No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Footnotes

  1. 1Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see ); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20

Cross references

  1. sLuke 12:4
  2. t[ver. 10; Matt. 12:50]
  3. u[ver. 20]
  4. xch. 3:32; 8:26, 40; [ch. 16:13]
  5. ych. 17:26; [Gen. 18:17; 1 Cor. 2:16; 13:9, 10]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.

NLTNew Living Translation

You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

KJV 1900King James Version

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 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 I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.