if you obey me. 15 servants don't know what their master is doing, and so i don't speak to you as my servants. i speak to you as my friends, and i have told you everything that my father has told me.
16 you did not choose me. i chose you and sent you out to produce fruit, the kind of fruit that will last. then my father will give you whatever you ask for in my name.
17 so i command you to love each other.
w 15.18 world: see the note at 12.31.
hate you, just remember that they hated me first. 19 if you belonged to the world, its people would 