16 You did not choose me, but I chose you.i I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you askj the Father in my name,k he will give you.l

17 “This is what I command you: Love one another.

PERSECUTIONS PREDICTED

18 “If the world hatesm you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosenn you out of it, the world hates you.