John 15:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name. ¹⁷ This, then, is what I command you: love one another.

The World's Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.