Abide

9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.  10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.  11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.  12"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  14You are my friends if you do what I command you.  15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.  16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.  17This I command you, to love one another. John 15: 9-17