John 15:9-19

9 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

10 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

11 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

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

13 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

16 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

17 "Thus I command you to love one another.

18 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.