John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. This is so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

In Context

15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

17These things I command you, so that you love one another.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:18since Abraham will indeed become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Psalms 78:4We will not keep them from their descendants. 1 We will tell the next generation about the praiseworthy deeds of Yahweh, 1 his strength, and the wonders that he has done. 1

Proverbs 11:30The righteous person will be like a tree of life, 1 but violence takes away lives. 1

Isaiah 49:1Listen to me, you coastlands! Now give my your attention, you distant peoples. 1 Yahweh has called me from birth by name, when my mother brought me into the world. 1

Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb, I chose you; 1 before you came out from the womb I set you apart; I made you a prophet to the nations.”

Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your fathers to whom the prophets cried out previously, saying, “Yahweh of hosts says this: Turn from your evil ways and wicked practices!” But they would not hear and did not pay attention to me—this is Yahweh's declaration.' 1

Matthew Henry on John 15:10-18

Christ's Love to His Disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my… Read the whole commentary →

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