The New Command

³¹ When^(A) he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man^(B) is glorified, and God is glorified^(C) in him.^{(D) 32} If God is glorified in him,^[a] God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. ³³ Little children, I am with you a little while longer.^(E) You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’^(F)

³⁴ “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love^(G) one another.”

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am^(A) the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,^(B) and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean^(C) because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.^{(D) 5} I am the vine; ^(E) you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit,^(F) because you can do nothing without me. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside^(G) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,^(H) and they are burned.^{(I) 7} If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.^{(J) 8} My Father is glorified^(K) by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^[a] my disciples.

Christlike Love

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.^{(L) 10} If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.^(M)

¹¹ “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.^(N)

¹² “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved^(O) you. ¹³ No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life^(P) for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master^[b](Q) is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you.^(R) I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^(S) the Father in my name,^(T) he will give you.^(U)

¹⁷ “This is what I command you: Love one another.

Love, Our Primary Duty

⁸ Do not owe anyone anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.^{(A) 9} The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal;^[a] do not covet;^[b](B) and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.^{[c](C) 10} Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

¹⁸ Do not take revenge^(A) or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself;^(B) I am the Lord.