John 15:9-17 - Christlike Love

⁹ As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love. ¹⁰ If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

¹¹ "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect. ¹² This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you. ¹⁷ "Thus I command you to love one another.