John 15:11-23

¹¹I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

¹²This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

¹³Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

¹⁵No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

¹⁶You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

¹⁷So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

¹⁸If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

¹⁹If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

²⁰Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

²¹They will do all this to you because of my name — because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.

²²If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

²³He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.