John 15:14

Christlike Love

¹³ No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

You are My Friends

John

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Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, that person is My brother and sister and mother.”

Luke 12:4

“And I say to you, My friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.

2 Chronicles 20:7

Are You not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?

Song of Songs 5:1

M I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gather my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.

N Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with love!

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
descendant of Abraham, My friend—

John 2:5

“Do whatever He tells you,” His mother told the servants.

John 13:17

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

John 14:15

“If you love Me, you will keep My commands.

John 14:21

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

John 14:28

You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

James 2:23

So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.

1 John 5:3

For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,