John 15: 9 - 17
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| 9
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
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| 10
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If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
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| 11
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These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
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| 12
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"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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| 13
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Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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| 14
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You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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| 15
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No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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| 16
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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| 17
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This I command you, to love one another.
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