One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
John 15:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I do not call you servants any more, because a servant doesn’t know what his master , is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.] American Standard Version (1901) No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you. Common English Bible I don’t call you servants any longer, because servants don’t know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you. Catholic Public Domain Version I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. |
One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing his counsel to his servants the prophets.
He answered, ‘Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
Then turning to his disciples he said privately, ‘Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see!
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him.
‘Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, , and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.
Remember the word I spoke to you: “A servant is not greater than his master.” If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.’
‘Don’t cling to me,’ Jesus told her, ‘since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
‘I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him #– #these things I tell the world.’
For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practise what I want to do, but I do what I hate.
For who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct him? , But we have the mind of Christ.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba, Father! ’
He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ
This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:
the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave #– #as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. , Greetings.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, , and he was called God’s friend.
They enquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified in advance to the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those who have received a faith equal to ours through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are the called, loved , by God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.
The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,