Jn 15:11-17

11“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.^h 12This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.ⁱ 13^* No one has greater love than this,^j to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends,^* because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.^k 16It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.^l 17This I command you: love one another.^m