⁷ If you remain in me^(A) and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.^{(B) 8} This is to my Father’s glory,^(C) that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.^(D)

⁹ “As the Father has loved me,^(E) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands,^(F) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^{(G) 12} My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^{(H) 13} Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^{(I) 14} You are my friends^(J) if you do what I command.^{(K) 15} I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.^{(L) 16} You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you^(M) so that you might go and bear fruit^(N)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.^{(O) 17} This is my command: Love each other.^(P)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(Q) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(R) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^{(S) 20} Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a](T) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(U) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

¹³ When you were dead in your sins^(A) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you^[a] alive^(B) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,^{(C) 14} having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,^(D) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.^(E)

⁸ For it is by grace^(A) you have been saved,^(B) through faith^(C)—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works,^(D) so that no one can boast.^{(E) 10} For we are God’s handiwork,^(F) created^(G) in Christ Jesus to do good works,^(H) which God prepared in advance for us to do.