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, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me.

And when it was day, he called to him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named Apostles;

And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which of these two thou hast chosen,

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.

Not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldst know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldst hear the voice of his mouth.

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Ordained

Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be to you: as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you.

So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him, Yes, Lord: thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him, Feed my lambs.

Listen to me, O Isles; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

Before I formed thee in embryo I knew thee; and before thou wast born I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet to the nations.

And Jesus came, and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me in heaven and upon earth.

And he said to them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

But ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.

By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name:

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly to you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me from God.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I preach not the gospel!

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which hath been preached to every creature which is under heaven; of which I Paul am made a minister;

For which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

To which I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

And the things that thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

Bring

In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come to you (but have been hitherto hindered) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God hath given the increase.

Which is come to you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace.

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

Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

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

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

And now behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

For whatever things were written formerly, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

And that from a child thou hast known the sacred scriptures, which are able to make thee wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

While they behold your chaste manner of life coupled with fear.

That whatsoever

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye may ask what ye will, and it shall be done to you.

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

And in that day ye will ask me nothing: Verily, verily, I say to you, Whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

And all things whatever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

General references

A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe around it.

We love him, because he first loved us.