John 15:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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) 17} This is what I command you: Love one another.

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁸ “If the world hates^(E) you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.