₉I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love. ₁₀If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

₁₁“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ₁₂My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. ₁₃The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them. ₁₄And you are my friends if you do what I command you. ₁₅I 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. ₁₆You 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. ₁₇This, then, is what I command you: love one another.