John 15: 9-17
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“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. | |
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If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. | |
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I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. | |
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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. | |
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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. | |
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You are my friends if you do what I command. | |
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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. | |
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. | |
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This is my command: Love each other. | |
New International Version
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