John 15:9-17

9“As the Father loved Me, I also have 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.

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

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

13Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

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

16You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

17These things I command you, that you love one another.