015:010 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I
have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.
015:011 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy
in you, and that your joy may become perfect.
015:012 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I
have loved you.
015:013 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life
for his friends.
015:014 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
015:015 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.
015:016 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.
015:017 "Thus I command you to love one another.
015:018 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me
as the fixed object of its hatred.
015:019 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.
015:020 Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior
to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching,
they will obey yours also.
015:021 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account
of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him
who sent me.