16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. …
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. …
We love him, because he first loved us.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)Christ, who is love itself, is here discoursing concerning love, a fourfold love. I. Concerning the Father’s love to him; and concerning this he here tells us, 1. That the Father did love him (John 15:9): As the Father hath loved me . He loved him as Mediator: This is my beloved Son . He was the Son of his love. He loved him, and gave all things into his hand ; and yet so loved the world as to del…
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