13 The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.
16 You did not choose me; I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit, fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name.
17 This is my command: Love each other.
18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don’t belong to it. That is why the world hates you.