12 This is My command: Love one another as I have loved(A) you. 13 No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life(B) for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master(a)(C) is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you.(D) I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask(E) the Father in My name,(F) He will give you.(G) 17 This is what I command you: Love one another.

Footnotes:

a. John 15:15: Or lord

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