John 15:9-17

New American Standard Bible

⁹ Just as ^(A)the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love. ^10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as ^(C)I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. ^11 (D)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(E)joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹² “This is ^(F)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ^13 (G)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will ^(H)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My ^(I)friends if ^(J)you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because ^(K)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (L)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(M)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(N)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷ This ^(O)I command you, that you love one another.