John 15:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

John 15:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 17:23-24
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. …
John 17:26
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
1 John 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-17)

Christ, who is love itself, is here discoursing concerning love, a fourfold love. I. Concerning the Father’s love to him; and concerning this he here tells us, 1. That the Father did love him (John 15:9): As the Father hath loved me. He loved him as Mediator: This is my beloved Son. He was the Son of his love. He loved him, and gave all things into his hand; and yet so loved the world as to delive…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9-11. continue ye in my love--not, “Continue to love Me,” but, “Continue in the possession and enjoyment of My love to you”; as is evident from the next words.