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.

Have not

Ordained

Bring

That your

That whatsoever

General references

Exodus 28:34

1 John 4:19

Bible References

Have not

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread

has raised his heel against Me.

When daylight came, He summoned His disciples, and He chose 12 of them—He also named them apostles:

Then they prayed, “You, Lord, know the hearts of all; show which of these two You have chosen

But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.

not by all the people, but by us, witnesses appointed beforehand by God, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the sound of His voice.

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Ordained

Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said to Him, “You know that I love You.”

“Feed My lambs,”

He told him.

Coastlands, listen to me;
distant peoples, pay attention.
The Lord called me before I was born.
He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.

I chose you before I formed you in the womb;
I set you apart before you were born.
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

Then He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations,

on behalf of His name,

Nevertheless, I have written to remind you more boldly on some points because of the grace given me by God

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased

For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

For this I was appointed a herald, an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher,

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders in every town:

Bring

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
but violence takes lives.

In days to come, Jacob will take root.
Israel will blossom and bloom
and fill the whole world with fruit.

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven
and do not return there
without saturating the earth
and making it germinate and sprout,
and providing seed to sow
and food to eat,

Then the remnant of Jacob
will be among many peoples
like dew from the Lord,
like showers on the grass,
which do not wait for anyone
or linger for mankind.

Now I want you to know,

brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of God’s good news. My purpose is that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and recognized God’s grace in the truth.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.

That your

Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

We must not hide them from their children,
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.

One generation will declare Your works to the next
and will proclaim Your mighty acts.

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

“And now I know that none of you will ever see my face again—everyone I went about preaching the kingdom to.

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

when they observe your pure, reverent lives.

That whatsoever

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

General references

so that gold bells and pomegranates alternate around the lower hem of the robe.

We love because He first loved us.