John 15:9-17 - Christlike Love

⁹ As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Dwell ye in my love. ¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.

¹¹ These things I have spoken to you that my joy may dwell in you, and your joy may be full. ¹² This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you. ¹⁶ Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and appointed you, so that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that anything whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, he may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, so that ye may love each other.