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These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father"s commandments, and abide in his love.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.

And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.