John 15:9
Just as the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit, and by doing so you will be my disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13No one has greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 17:26I have made yoʋr name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which yoʋ have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.”
1 John 2:28And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink back from him in shame at his coming.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and washed us from our sins with 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 →