John 15:12-21

12“This is 1My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 132Greater love has no one than this, that one 3lay down his life for his friends. 14You are My 4friends if 5you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for 6all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 167You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and 8bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that 9whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17This 10I command you, that you love one another.

18“11If the world hates you, 12you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but 13I chose you out of the world, 14because of this the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘15A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, 16they will also persecute you; if they 17kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you 18for My name’s sake, 19because they do not know the One who sent Me.