John 15:16

Jesus reminds the disciples that He chose and appointed them to bear lasting fruit and to receive answered prayer in His name. Their fruitfulness rests on His prior choice.

Cross-references · 40

• Jer 1:5–7“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
• John 15:19If 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.
• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
• 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Gal 1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
• Luke 6:13When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
• Acts 22:14He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
• 1 Pet 1:14–21as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• John 13:18I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
• 2 Tim 2:2The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
• 1 Pet 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
• John 16:23–24“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
• Isa 49:1–3Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
• Matt 28:18–19Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• Ps 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
• John 14:13–14Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
• Ps 78:4–6We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
• 1 Cor 9:16–18For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News.
• 1 Jn 4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• John 21:15–17So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
• John 15:7–8If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
• Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
• Acts 1:24They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
• 1 Pet 3:2seeing your pure behavior in fear.
• Ps 145:4One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
• Isa 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
• Isa 55:10–13For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
• Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
• Luke 24:47–49and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• John 20:21–23Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• Col 1:6which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
• 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
• Rom 9:21Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
• 1 Cor 3:6–7I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• 2 Tim 1:11For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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