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13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his 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 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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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 appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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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 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
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This is my command: Love each other.
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