John 15:12-22

12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another as I have loved you.

13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.

14 Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.

15 From now on I do not call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it unto you.

17 This I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

21 But they will do all these things unto you for my name’s sake, because they do not know him that sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.