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 ye were of the world, the world would love its own, but because ye are not of the world (instead I chose you out of the world), because of this the world hates you.

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

I speak not about you all. I have seen whom I chose, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me lifted up his heel against me.

And when it became day, he called his disciples, and chose twelve from them, whom he also named apostles:

And having prayed, they said, Thou, Lord, knowing the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou have chosen

But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were previously chosen by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he arose from the dead.

And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous man, and to hear a voice from his mouth,

(for not yet having been born, nor having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to selection might remain, not from works, but from him who calls),

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.

Ordained

Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.

So when they ate breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do thou love me more than these things? He says to him, Yea, Lord. Thou know that I love thee. He says to him, Feed my lambs.

Listen, O isles, to me, and hearken, ye peoples from far. LORD has called me from the womb. From the bowels of my mother he has made mention of my name.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou came forth out of the womb I sanctified thee. I have appointed thee a prophet to the nations.

And Jesus having come, he spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth was given to me.

And he said to them, Having gone into all the world, preach ye the good-news to the whole creation.

and to proclaim in his name repentance and remission of sins for all the nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

But ye will receive the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon you. And ye will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as of the extremity of the earth.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name,

But I wrote more boldly to you, brothers, in part, as reminding you because of the grace that was given to me by God,

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

For which I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

for which I was appointed a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of Gentiles.

And what thou have heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit thou to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

I left thee behind in Crete on account of this: That thou should set in order the things lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded thee,

Bring

By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.

In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from LORD, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles.

for me to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, serving the good-news of God like a priest, so that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, being sanctified in Holy Spirit.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused growth.

being present for you, just as also in all the world. And it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day that ye heard and recognized the grace of God in truth.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.

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since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Yea, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared thy strength to a generation, thy might to everyone who is to come.

We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

And now behold, I have seen that ye will no longer see my face, ye all among whom I passed through preaching the kingdom of God.

For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

And that from a babe thou have known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

observing, in fear, your pure behavior.

That whatsoever

If ye dwell in me, and my sayings dwell in you, ye will ask whatever ye may want, and it will be done to you.

And anything whatever ye may ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

And in that day ye will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, that as many things as ye may ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

And all things, as many as ye may ask in prayer, believing, ye will receive.

General references

a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about.

We love him, because he first loved us.