John 15:15

WEB

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

KJV

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.

BSB

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

FBV

¹⁵I don't call you servants any longer, for servants are not taken into their master's confidence.^[+] I call you friends, for everything my Father told me I've explained to you.

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Extra References

Psalms 25:14

¹⁴The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

1 Corinthians 2:9-12

⁹But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

¹⁰But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. ¹²But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Matthew 13:11

¹¹He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

James 2:23

²³So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,”and he was called the friend of God.

Colossians 1:26

²⁶the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

Revelation 1:1

¹This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ,^[+] which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel^[+] to his servant, John,

Genesis 18:17-19

¹⁷The LORD said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do, ¹⁸since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? ¹⁹For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”