11. “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12. My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.
13. The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.
14. And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
15. I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
16. You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.
17. This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
18. “If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.
19. If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.
20. Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
21. But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.
22. They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
23. Whoever hates me hates my Father also.