¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you.^(A) I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^(B) the Father in My name,^(C) He will give you.^(D)

¹⁹ 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^(A) you out of it, the world hates you.