King James Version (KJV)
John 15:16
“‹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.›”
Verse in context — John 15
14
‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›
15
‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›
16
‹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.›
17
‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›
18
‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›
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