John 15:16-17

I Am the True Vine

¹⁶ You did not choose me, but _z I chose you and appointed you that you should go and _a bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that _b whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, _c so that you will love one another.

1. Cross References
   John 13:18
   I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.
   
2. Cross References
   2 John 1:8
   Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
   
3. Cross References
   John 15:7
   If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
   John 14:13
   Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
   
4. Cross References
   John 15:12
   This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.