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"You are My 1friendsif2you dowhat I command you.
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"Nolonger do I call you slaves, for the slave does not knowwhat his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for 3allthings that I have heard from My Father I have madeknown to you.
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"4You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and 5bearfruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that 6whatever** you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
18"8If the worldhates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
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"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but 9I chose you out of the world, 10because of this* the worldhates you.
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"Remember the word that I said to you, '11A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, 12they will alsopersecute you; if they 13kept My word, they will keepyoursalso.
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"But allthesethings they will do to you 14for My name'ssake, 15because they do not know the One who sent Me.
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"16If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not havesin, but now they havenoexcuse for their sin.