Greater Love Has No One Than This (John 15:12-15)
John 15:12-15 · Berean Standard Bible
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." Here Jesus defines the highest form of love as self-sacrifice, and then astonishingly calls his disciples friends rather than servants. John 15:12-15 weaves love, friendship, and sacrifice together — exactly the answer searchers are looking for behind this well-known verse.
12This is My commandment, that you love one another 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 you.
15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
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