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## John 15:9-17 in Context (Verses 6–20 KJV)
 
 [6 ](/kjv/john/15/6) If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast *them* into the fire, and they are burned.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/john/15/7) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/john/15/8) Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/john/15/9) As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/john/15/10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/john/15/11) These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and *that* your joy might be full.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/john/15/12) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/john/15/13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/john/15/14) Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/john/15/15) Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/john/15/16) Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and *that* your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/john/15/17) These things I command you, that ye love one another.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/john/15/18) If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before *it hated* you.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/john/15/19) If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/john/15/20) Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
 
[John 14](/kjv/john/14) [John 16](/kjv/john/16)

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