9?“As the Father has loved me,?so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.?

10?If you keep my commands,?you will remain in my love, just as I have kept

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.?12?My command is

this: Love each other as I have loved you.?13?Greater love has no one than this:

to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.?14?You are my friends?if you do what I

command.?15?I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his

master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned

from my Father I have made known to you.?16?You did not choose me, but I chose

you and appointed you?so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—

and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.?17?This is my

command: Love each other. ~St. John 15:9-17 9NIV)~