No Greater Love

9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11 I have told you these things so that My joy may abide[fn] in you and your joy may be complete.

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that [he] lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are My friends if you do whatever[fn] I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant {does} not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You {did} not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. 17 This is My command to you: Love one another.