\u201cThis is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn\u2019t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. You didn\u2019t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. This is my command: Love each other.\u201d
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\u201cAnd so it happened just as the Scriptures say: \u201cAbraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.\u201d He was even called the friend of God.\u201d
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