约翰福音 15:9-17
15:9我爱你们，正如父爱我一样，你们要常在我的爱里。
15:10你们若遵守我的命令，就常在我的爱里；正如我遵守了我父的命令，常在他的爱里。
15:11这些事我已经对你们说了，是要叫我的喜乐存在你们心里，并叫你们的喜乐可以满足。
15:12你们要彼此相爱，像我爱你们一样，这就是我的命令。
15:13人为朋友舍命，人的爱心没有比这个大的。
15:14你们若遵行我所吩咐的，就是我的朋友了。
15:15以后我不再称你们为仆人，因仆人不知道主人所做的事；我乃称你们为朋友，因我从我父所听见的，已经都告诉你们了。
15:16不是你们拣选了我，是我拣选了你们；并且分派你们去结果子，叫你们的果子常存，使你们奉我的名，无论向父求什么，他就赐给你们。
15:17我这样吩咐你们，是要叫你们彼此相爱。
箴言17:17
17:17 朋友乃时常亲爱；
弟兄为患难而生。
John 15:9-17 (NIV)
9“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends if you do what I command.
15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit–fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
17This is my command: Love each other.
Proverbs 17:17 (NIV)
17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.