Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and {\i that} your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, {\cf6 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, {\i even} to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as {\i it doth} in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?