John 15:14-17

I Am the True Vine

¹⁴ _r "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ "No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, _s for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ _t "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and _u appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father _v in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ "These things I command you, that you love one another.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 12:50
   "For whoever does the will of My Father in heav...
   Matthew 28:20
   Teaching them to observe all things that I have...
   John 14:15
   If you love Me, keep My commandments.
   John 14:21
   "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it ...
   Acts 10:42
   And He commanded us to preach to the people, an...
   1 John 3:23
   And this is His commandment: that we should bel...
   1 John 3:24
   Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him...
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 18:17
   And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing.
   
3. Cross References
   John 6:70
   Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?
   John 13:18
   "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.'
   John 15:19
   If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
   1 John 4:10
   In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 28:19
   Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
   Mark 16:15
   And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
   Colossians 1:6
   Which has come to you, as it has also in all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also among you since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.
   
5. Cross References
   John 14:13
   And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
   John 16:23
   And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
   John 16:24
   Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.