John 15:9-15

9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

12"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.