John 15:9
Just as the Father loved me, I also, loved you: Abide ye in my love.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8Herein, was my Father glorified, that, much fruit, ye should bear, and become my disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13Greater love than this, hath, no one, That, his life, one should lay down in behalf of his friends.
John 17:26And I made known unto them thy name, and will make known,—that, the love wherewith thou lovedst me, in them, may be, and, I, in them.
1 John 2:28And, now, dear children, abide ye in him, in order that, if he be made manifest, we may have boldness, and not be shamed away from him by his presence.
Revelation 1:5and from—Jesus Christ,—The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn of the Dead, and The Ruler of the Kings of the Earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us out of 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 →