2.         to provide a fulfilling joy

 

15:9-11

2.         My joy in you and your joy may be filled (15:16)

15:9 As loved me the Father, I also you loved: remain ye in the love my. 10 If the commandments of me ye keep, ye will remain in the love of me,

as I of the Father of me the commandments have kept and remain of him in the love. 11 These things I have spoken to you that the joy my in you may be and the joy of you may be filled.

 

3.         because of an established friendship

 

15:12-15

3.         Ye friends of me are (15:14)

15:12 This is the commandment my, that ye love one another as I loved you. 13 Greater than this love no one has, that anyone the life of him should lay down for the friends of him. 14 Ye friends of me are, if ye do what I command you

. 15 No longer I call you slaves, because the slave knows not what does of him the Lord: but you I have called friends, because all things which I heard from the Father of me I made known to you.

 

4.         because of being chosen

 

15:16-25

4.         I have chosen you (15:16)

15:16 Not ye me chose, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye should go and fruit should bear and the fruit of you should remain, that whatever ye may ask the Father in the name of me he may give you 17 these things I command you, that ye love one another. 18 If the world you hates; ye know that me before you it has hated. 19 If of the world ye were the world would that own have loved; but because of the world ye are not, but I chose you out of the world, therefore hates you the world. 20 Remember ye the word which I said to you. Not is a slave greater than the lord of him If me they persecuted also you they will persecute: if the word

of me they kept, also yours they will keep. 21 But these things all they will do to you because of the name of me, because they know not the one having sent me. 22 Unless I came and spoke to them, sin they had not had: but now cloak they have not concerning the sin of them. 23 The one me hating also the Father of me hates. 24 If the works I did not among them which no man other did, sin they had not had: but now both they have seen and have hated both me and the Father of me. 25 But that may be fulfilled the word in the law of them having been written. They hated me freely.