John 15:9-10

I Am the True Vine

⁹ _i As the Father has loved me, _j so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ¹⁰ _k If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as _l I have kept _m my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

1. Cross References
   John 5:20
   For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.
   
2. Cross References
   John 13:34
   A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
   
3. Cross References
   John 14:15
   If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
   John 14:23
   Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
   
4. Cross References
   John 8:55
   But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
   John 17:4
   I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
   Philippians 2:8
   And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
   
5. Cross References
   John 10:18
   No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.