John 15:9-17 - Christlike Love

⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

¹¹ "I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you keep on doing what I command you to do. ¹⁵ I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for. ¹⁷ "What I command you to do is, to keep on loving one another.