John 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, and I have loved you, continue in my love:
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
In Context
8Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.
Cross References
John 15:13Greater love hath no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends:
John 17:26And I have made known to them thy name, and will farther make it known; that the love wherewith Thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I also in them.
1 John 2:28And now, little children, abide, I say, in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and may not be ashamed before Him at his coming.
Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him that loved us, and washed 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 →