John 15:16

Williams

John 15:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Have not

Ordained

Bring

That your

1 Peter 3:2

That whatsoever

General references

1 John 4:19

Bible References

Have not

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

Jesus answered them, "Did I not myself select you as the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil."

I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

When day came, He called His disciples to Him, and selected from them twelve whom He also named apostles:

And they prayed, saying, "Lord, you who know the hearts of all, show us which one of these two men you have chosen

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name to the heathen and their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.

not by all the people but by witnesses whom God had beforehand appointed, namely, by us who ate and drank with Him after His resurrection from the dead.

and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear Him speak,

For even before the twin sons were born, and though they had done nothing either good or bad, that God's purpose in accordance with His choice might continue to stand, conditioned not on men's actions but on God's calling them,

In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Ordained

Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

Then Jesus came up to them, and said, "Full authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Then He said to them, "You must go all over the world and preach the good news to all the creation.

and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem

but you are going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you must be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

through whom we have received God's favor and a commission as an apostle in His name to urge upon all the heathen obedience inspired by faith,

And yet, to refresh your memories, I have written you rather freely on some details, because of the unmerited favor shown me by God

For if I do preach the good news, I have no ground for boasting of it, for I cannot help doing it. Yes, indeed, I am accursed if I do not preach the good news.

But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor,

For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

and for which purpose I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am telling the truth, I am not lying, -- a teacher of the heathen in the realm of faith and truth.

Of this good news I have been appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be competent to teach others too.

I left you in Crete for this express purpose, to set in order the things that are lacking, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you --

Bring

By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.

Furthermore, I want you to know, brothers, that I have often planned to come to see you (though until now I have been prevented), in order that I may gather some fruit among you too, as I have among the rest of the heathen.

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who kept the plants growing.

which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,

The harvest of uprightness is grown from the seed of peace by those who are peacemakers.

That your

And now I know that none of you among whom I went about preaching the kingdom will ever see my face again.

For everything that was written in the earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by our patient endurance and through the encouragement the Scriptures bring we might continuously cherish our hope.

Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.

and that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures which can give you wisdom that leads to salvation through the faith that leans on Christ Jesus.

By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.

As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,

when they see how chaste and respectful you are.

That whatsoever

If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.

And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.

At that time you will ask me no more questions. I most solemnly say to you, the Father will give you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

And whatever you ask for in prayer, if you believe it, you will get it."

General references

We love, because He loved us first.