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⁹ As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.¹⁰ If my commandments you will keep, you shall abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and abide in his love.¹¹ These have I spoken with you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.¹² This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.¹³ Love which is greater than this is not, that a man lay down his life for his friends.¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do all that I command you.¹⁵ No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.¹⁶ You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and placed you, that you also may go (and) yield much fruit; and your fruit shall remain, because all that you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.¹⁷ These I command you, That you love one another.

¹⁸ And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.¹⁹ And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth you.²⁰ Remember the word which I spake with you, That there is no servant who is greater than his lord. If me they have persecuted, you also will they persecute; and if my word they had kept, yours also would they keep.²¹ But these all will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not Him who sent me.²² If I had not come and spoken with them, they had not had sin; but now have they no pretext for their sins. [fn] ²³ He who hateth me, my Father also hateth.²⁴ And if the works I had not done before their eyes which no other man hath done, they had not had sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father; [fn] ²⁵ that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me undeservedly.

²⁶ But when the Paraclete cometh, He whom I will send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who from my Father cometh forth, He shall testify of me.²⁷ You also testify, because from the beginning are you with me.