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"aYou did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bbear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that cwhatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
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John 6:70, John 13:18, John 15:19
John 6
70
Jesus answered them, "aDid I Myself not choose you, bthe twelve, and yet one of you is ca devil?"
John 13
18
"aI do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have bchosen; but it iscthat the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'dHE WHO EATS MY BREAD 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 aI chose you out of the world, bbecause of this the world hates you.