John 15:9-17 - Christlike Love

⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

¹¹ I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete. ¹² The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you to do. ¹⁵ I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers. ¹⁷ "What I command you to do is to love one another.