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12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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You are my friends if you do what I command.
15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
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I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I 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 last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
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This is my command: Love each other.
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