John 15:16-18

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you, in order that you may go and bear fruit and your fruit may remain, in order that He may give you whatever thing you ask the Father in My name. ¹⁷ I am commanding these things to you so-that you will love one another.

The World Will Hate You As It Hated Me, Because You Will Be Testifying of Me

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, you know^[a] that it has hated Me before you.