^13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, ^(B)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(C)my friends ^(D)if you do what I command you. ^15 (E)No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant ^(F)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(G)all that I have heard from my Father ^(H)I have made known to you.

²⁷ John answered, ^(A)“A person cannot receive even one thing ^(B)unless it is given him ^(C)from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ^(D)‘I am not the Christ, but ^(E)I have been sent before him.’ ^29 (F)The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. ^(G)The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, ^(H)rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. ^30 (I)He must increase, but I must decrease.”^[a]

²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, ^(A)“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a ^(B)friend of God.

Warning Against Worldliness

4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions^[a] are ^(A)at war within you?^{[b] 2} You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. ³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^(B)wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ^4 (C)You adulterous people!^[c] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(D)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.