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16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.

17 “These things I command you, so that you may love one another.”

The World Hates God’s Own

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before you.

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16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you(A) so that you might go and bear fruit(B)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.(C) 17 This is my command: Love each other.(D)

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you,(E) keep in mind that it hated me first.

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