John 15:9-17

9“Just as the Father has 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.

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

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

13No one has greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

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

15“I am no longer calling you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. Now I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

16“You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.

17“These things I command you, so that you may love one another.”