15. I 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.
16. It 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.
17. This I command you: love one another.
18. “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
19. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
20. Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.
23. Whoever hates me also hates my Father.