The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me.

I made you known to them, and I will continue to do so, in order that the love you have for me may be in them, and so that I also may be in them."

so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's love.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

"I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Yes, my children, remain in union with him, so that when he appears we may be full of courage and need not hide in shame from him on the Day he comes.

But you, my friends, keep on building yourselves up on your most sacred faith. Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,