John 15:16

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John 15:16

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Summary

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.

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General references

Exodus 28:34

1 John 4:19

Bible References

Have not

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

Jesus answered them, 'Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.

not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.

and when it became day, he called near his disciples, and having chosen from them twelve, whom also he named apostles,

and having prayed, they said, 'Thou, Lord, who art knowing the heart of all, shew which one thou didst choose of these two

And the Lord said unto him, 'Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;

not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

Ordained

Jesus, therefore, said to them again, 'Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'

Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name.

'Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and woe is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

and when God was well pleased -- having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace --

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

Bring

'In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls is wise.

Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world with increase.

For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater,

And the remnant of Jacob hath been in the midst of many peoples, As dew from Jehovah -- as showers on the herb, That waiteth not for man, nor stayeth for the sons of men.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you -- and was hindered till the present time -- that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

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and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare.

Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

And now, lo, I have known that no more shall ye see my face, -- ye all among whom I did go preaching the reign of God;

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

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if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;

and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;

and all -- as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

General references

a bell of gold and a pomegranate, a bell of gold and a pomegranate are on the hems of the upper robe round about.

we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;