As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
12 ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
Translation: Just as the Father loved me, I loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept the commandments of my Father and I remain in his love. These things I have spoken to you so that my joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete. This is my commandment, that you love each other just as I have loved you. No one has love greater than this, that one might lay down his life on behalf of his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his Lord is doing. But I called you friends because all that I have heard alongside my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I lay you down so that you might go and produce your fruit that might last so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. I am giving you these commands so that you might love one another.

