John 15:9-17 - Christlike Love

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you may love one another.