Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(A)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

^10 (A)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 ^(A)that your joy may be full.

^12 (A)This is My ^(B)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

^13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

^14 (A)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, ^(A)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

^16 (A)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(B)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(C)in My name He may give you.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.