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15:16-25 "It is not a matter of you choosing me. Rather I chose you and have
appointed you that you should
go and bear fruit and the fruit (you bear) should remain, so that whatever
you may ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. What I command you is that you love
one another. If the world hates
you, you know that it has hated me before it has hated you. If you were of the world it would
have loved (you) as its own.
But you are not of the world.
I chose you out of the world.
Therefore the world hates you.
Remember the word that I told you. A slave is not greater than his
lord. If they (enemies of
Jesus) persecuted me, so then they
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will
also persecute you. If they had
kept my word, so also would they keep your word. But they will do all these things
(c/f persecution) to you because of my name and because they do not know
the one who has sent me. If I
had not come and spoken to them they would not have sinned. But now they have no cover for their
sin. The one who hates me also
hates my Father. If I did not
do such works amongst them - things that no other man has ever done, then
they would not have sinned. But
now they have both seen me and have hated myself and my Father. This has
happened so that the word in their law should be fulfilled, that is
"They hated me freely".
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