John 15:9-17

Modern English Version

⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also loved you. Remain in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is My commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I have heard from My Father have I made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that the Father may give you whatever you ask Him in My name. ¹⁷ This I command you: that you love one another.