John 15:16

English Majority Text Version

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

Cross References

Matthew 21:22

And all things, as many as you may ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."

Matthew 7:7

"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

Luke 6:13

And when it became day, He summoned His disciples, and having chosen twelve from them, whom He also named apostles:

John 13:18

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know those whom I chose; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.'

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

John 15:5

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing.

John 6:70

He answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

Acts 1:24

And they prayed and said, "You, O Lord, knower of all hearts, show whom You have chosen of these two"

Acts 1:8

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Acts 10:41

not to all the people, but to witnesses, who having been chosen beforehand by God, even to us, who ate together and drank together with Him after He arose from the dead.

Acts 22:14

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice from His mouth.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is a chosen vessel to Me to bear My name before Gentiles and kings, and the sons of Israel.

Romans 1:13

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.

Romans 1:5

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name,

Romans 15:4

For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction, that through the patience and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.

Romans 9:21

Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and the other for dishonor?

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now all these things happened to those people as examples, and they were written for our instruction, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

Galatians 1:15

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

Ephesians 2:10

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith, having been founded and firm and not drifting away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was proclaimed to all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Colossians 1:6

which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

1 Timothy 2:7

for which I was appointed a herald and apostle--I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11

to which I was appointed a herald and apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

Titus 1:5

For this reason I left you behind in Crete, so that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and you should appoint elders in every city as I commanded you:

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying concerning his gifts; and through it, although he died, he still speaks.

James 3:18

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

1 Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be prepared with a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

1 Peter 3:2

when they observe your chaste conduct with fear.

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:19

We love Him because He first loved us.