Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(A)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^(C)that your joy may be full. ^12 (D)This is My ^(E)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (F)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14 (G)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^(H)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (I)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(J)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(K)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.