This
is how my Father is glorified; that you bear much fruit and, by doing
so, are my disciples.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Continue in my love.
If you keep my commandments you will abide in my love as I have kept my
Father's commandments and abide in His love. I tell you this so that my
joy will remain in you and your joy will be full.
This is my commandment, That you love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no man than that he lay down his life for his friends.
You are my friends. If you do what I command you, I do not call you
servants. The servant does not know what his lord does. But I call you
friends because all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known
to you.
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you so you
will go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit will remain so that
whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He will give it to you.
These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world
hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were
of the world, the world would love you as its own. But you are not of
the world. I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore the world will
hate you. Remember that I told you, The servant is not greater than his
lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
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