John 15:10-20 (New Living Translation)
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When you obey me, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father and remain in his love.
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I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!
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I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you.
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And here is how to measure it -- the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends.
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You are my friends if you obey me.
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I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
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You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.
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I command you to love each other.
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"When the world hates you, remember it hated me before it hated you.
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The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don't. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you.
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Do you remember what I told you? 'A servant is not greater than the master.' Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you!
Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online)
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