If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.