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The Book of John, Chapter 15, Verse 17

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16
‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›
King James Version
‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›
American Standard Version
These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
New English Translation
“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.
World English Bible
"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18
‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›
19
‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›
20
‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›
21
‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›
22
‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.›
23
‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›
24
‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›
25
‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.›
26
‹But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,› [even] ‹the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:›
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‹And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.›