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13 Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. 14 You⁺ are My friends if you⁺ do what I command you⁺. 15 No longer do I call you⁺ servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you⁺ friends, because all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you⁺. 16 You⁺ did not choose Me, but I chose you⁺, and I appointed you⁺ so that you⁺ should go and bear fruit, and that your⁺ fruit should remain, so that whatever you⁺ might ask the Father in My name, He may give you⁺. 17 These things I command you⁺, that you⁺ love one another. 18 If the world hates you⁺, you⁺ know that it has hated Me before you⁺. 19 If you⁺ were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you⁺ are not of the world, but I chose you⁺ out of the world, on account of this, the world hates you⁺. 20 Remember the word that I said to you⁺: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you⁺; if they kept My word, they will keep yours⁺ also. 21 But they will do all these things against you⁺ on account of My name, because they do not know the One having sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 The one hating Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no other has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this is so that the word having been written in their Law may be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me without cause.’ 26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you⁺ from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from the Father, He will testify about Me. 27 And you⁺ also testify, because you⁺ are with Me from the beginning. John 15:13-27, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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