8. In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples.”
9. “Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. Abide in My love!
10. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
11. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full.
12. “This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
13. No one has greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
14. You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15. “I am no longer calling you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. Now I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.
17. “These things I command you, so that you may love one another.”
18. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you.
19. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But you are not of the world, since I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hates you.
20. “Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.