CHRISTLIKE LOVE

9 “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.c 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.d

11 “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.e

12 “This is my command: Love one another as I have lovedf you. 13 No one has greater love than this: to lay down his lifeg 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 masterB,h 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.i I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you askj the Father in my name,k he will give you.l

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

PERSECUTIONS PREDICTED

18 “If the world hatesm you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosenn you out of it, the world hates you.