\u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn\u2019t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. You didn\u2019t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
\n\u201cI command these things to you, that you may love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: \u2018A servant is not greater than his lord.\u2019 If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do to you for my name\u2019s sake, because they don\u2019t know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn\u2019t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn\u2019t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, \u2018They hated me without a cause.\u2019
\n\u201cWhen the Counselor* has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.<\/p>\n
(John 15:12-27 WEB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I … Continue reading