John 15:13-17

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¹³ No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^{(A) 14} You are my friends if you do what I command you.^{(B) 15} I do not call you servants^[a] any longer, because the servant^[b] does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.^{(C) 17} I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.