John 15:12-24
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12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
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13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
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16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
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21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
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22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
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23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
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24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.