John 15:9
As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.
Cross References
John 15:13No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.
John 17:26And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, 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, dear children, continue in union with Him; so that, if He re-appears, we may have perfect confidence, and may not shrink away in shame from His presence at His Coming.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with 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 →