John 15:11-17 New English Translation (NET)

11. I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

12. My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

13. No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

14. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15. I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

16. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

17. This I command you – to love one another.

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