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You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
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If the world hates 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, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
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But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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He who hates me, hates my Father also.
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If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
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But that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
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"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.