16 (A)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and (B)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that (C)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This (D)I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

18 (E)If the world hates you, [a]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but (F)I chose you out of the world, (G)because of this the world hates you.

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Footnotes

  1. John 15:18 Or (command) know that

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