John 15:9
Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
John 17:26And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.
1 John 2:28And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
Revelation 1:5And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his 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 →