John 15:9
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
Montgomery 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
8"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 17:26"And I have declared - and will declare - thy name unto them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."
1 John 2:28And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed 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 →