John 15:9
As the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye shall become my disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
John 17:26and I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
1 John 2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, if he should be manifested, we may have confidence, and not turn away from him with shame at his coming.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and 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 →