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"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
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You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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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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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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I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.