9iAs the Father has loved me, jso have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10kIf you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as lI have kept mmy Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, nthat my joy may be in you, and that oyour joy may be full.
12p“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13qGreater love has no one than this, rthat someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are smy friends tif you do what I command you. 15uNo longer do I call you servants,1 for the servant wdoes not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for xall that I have heard from my Father yI have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but zI chose you and appointed you that you should go and abear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that bwhatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, cso that you will love one another.
Footnotes
- 1 15:15 Or bondservants, or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface); likewise for servant later in this verse and in verse 20
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