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Scott's Reference Library
John 15:9 through John 15:17 (NIV)
9“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my
Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy
may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12My command is this: Love each
other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down
his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no
longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.
Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father
I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed
you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you
whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command: Love each other.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 9-17
Those whom God loves as a Father, may despise the hatred of all the world. As
the Father loved Christ, who was most worthy, so he loved his disciples, who
were unworthy. All that love the Saviour should continue in their love to him,
and take all occasions to show it. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment,
but the joy of those who abide in Christ’s love is a continual feast. They are
to show their love to him by keeping his commandments. If the same power that
first shed abroad the love of Christ’s in our hearts, did not keep us in that
love, we should not long abide in it. Christ’s love to us should direct us to
love each other. He speaks as about to give many things in charge, yet names
this only; it includes many duties.