John 15:13-23

13 The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.
16 You did not choose me; I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit, fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name.
17 This is my command: Love each other.
18 "If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don't belong to it. That is why the world hates you.
20 Remember what I told you: A servant is not greater than his master. If people did wrong to me, they will do wrong to you, too. And if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours, too.
21 They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know the One who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me also hates my Father.

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