John 15:9-16
15:9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.
15:10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
15:11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.
15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.
15:13 No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.
15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15:15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.