John 15:9

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love.

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In The King James Version

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

In Context

8It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honored.

10If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father’s commands to heart and remain in his love.

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Cross References

John 15:13No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down their life for their friends.

John 17:26I have made you known to them, and will do so still; that the love that you have had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also.”

1 John 2:28Yes, my children, remain in him, so that when he appears our confidence doesn’t fail us, and we are not ashamed to meet him at his coming.

Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of all the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by 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 →

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