¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.^(A)

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

⁶ Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”^{(B) 7} But the Lord said to me,

¹⁰ For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.^(A)

¹⁵ and how from childhood you have known sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture is inspired by God and is^[a] useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,^{(A) 17} so that the person of God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.^(B)

¹⁹ We love^[a] because he first loved us.

² and what you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.^(A)

¹³ And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:^(A)

¹⁵ But when the one^[a] who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace was pleased^(A)

¹⁴ Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,^(A)