11. I have told you this so that my joy will be in you. I also want your joy to be complete.
12. "Here is my command. Love each other, just as I have loved you.
13. No one has greater love than the one who gives his life for his friends.
14. You are my friends if you do what I command.
15. "I do not call you servants anymore. Servants do not know their master's business. Instead, I have called you friends. I have told you everything I learned from my Father.
16. "You did not choose me. Instead, I chose you. I appointed you to go and bear fruit. It is fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name.
17. "Here is my command. Love each other.
18. "Does the world hate you? Remember that it hated me first.
19. If you belonged to the world, it would love you like one of its own. But you do not belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
20. "Remember the words I spoke to you. I said, 'A servant is not more important than his master.' (John 13:16) If people hated me and tried to hurt me, they will do the same to you. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
21. They will treat you like that because of my name. They do not know the One who sent me.
22. "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23. Those who hate me hate my Father also.