John 15:9
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and in this you will be my disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
John 17:26And I have made known to them thy name, and will continue to make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
1 John 2:28And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence, and may not be made ashamed by him at his coming.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us, and that has washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Matthew Henry on John 15:2-9
Christ the True Vine. 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same… Read the whole commentary →