John 15:16

Modern King James Version

You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

Cross References

Genesis 18:18

And Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the persons of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Psalm 145:4

One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.

Psalm 71:18

And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he who takes souls is wise.

Isaiah 27:6

He shall cause those who come from Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from Jehovah, as showers on a blade of the grass, which does not wait for man, nor delay for the sons of men.

Matthew 21:22

And all things, whatever you shall 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 was day, He called His disciples. And He chose twelve of them, whom He also named apostles:

John 13:18

I do not speak of you all; I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture might 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. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15:5

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

John 6:70

Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And one of you is a devil?

Acts 1:24

And they prayed and said, You, Lord, knower of all hearts, show which one You chose from these two,

Acts 1:8

But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

Acts 10:41

not to all the people, but to witnesses hand-picked before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after He rose 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 Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

Romans 1:13

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to you, and was kept back until the present; that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other nations.

Romans 1:5

by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;

Romans 15:4

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, so that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Romans 9:21

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?

1 Corinthians 10:11

And all these things happened to them as examples; and it is written for our warning on whom the ends of the world have come.

Galatians 1:15

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

Ephesians 2:10

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

Colossians 1:6

which has come to you as it has also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth,

1 Timothy 2:7

To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth.

2 Timothy 1:11

to which I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the nations.

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Titus 1:5

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

1 Peter 3:15

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;

1 Peter 3:2

having witnessed your chaste behavior in the fear of God.

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 concerning our sins.

1 John 4:19

We love Him because He first loved us.