12. This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you.
13. No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends.
14. You are My friends if you keep on doing the things which I command you to do.
15. I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]
16. You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.
17. This is what I command you: that you love one another.
18. If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you.