John 15:16 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

²² And whatever you ask for in your prayers will, if you have faith, be granted you."

¹⁸ Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them thus: "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the Faith of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

¹⁵ Then he said to them: "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to all creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who refuses to believe will be condemned.

¹³ When day came, he summoned his disciples, and chose twelve of them, whom he also named 'Apostles.'

⁴⁷ And that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations--beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You yourselves are to be witnesses to all this. ⁴⁹ And now I am myself about to send upon you that which my Father has promised. But you must remain in the city until you have been invested with power from above."

⁷⁰ "Did not I myself choose you to be the Twelve?" replied Jesus; "and yet, even of you, one is playing the 'Devil's' part."

¹⁸ I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'He that is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

¹³ Whatever you ask, in my Name, I will do, that the Father may be honored in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything, in my Name, I will do it.

⁷ If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours. ⁸ It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honored.

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

²³ And at that time you will not ask me anything; in truth I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything, he will grant it to you in my Name. ²⁴ So far you have not asked for anything, in my Name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²¹ Again Jesus said to them: "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his Messenger, so I am sending you." ²² After saying this, he breathed on them, and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit; ²³ If you remit any one's sins, they have been remitted; and, if you retain them, they have been retained."

¹⁵ When breakfast was over, Jesus said to Simon Peter: "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others?" "Yes, Master," he answered, "you know that I am your friend." "Feed my lambs," said Jesus. ¹⁶ Then, a second time, Jesus asked: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Yes, Master," he answered, "you know that I am your friend." "Tend my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ The third time, Jesus said to him: "Simon, son of John, are you my friend?" Peter was hurt at his third question being 'Are you my friend?'; and exclaimed: "Master, you know everything! You can tell that I am your friend." "Feed my sheep," said Jesus.

⁸ But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit shall have descended upon you, and shall be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

²⁴ And they offered this prayer--"O Lord, who reads all hearts, show which of these two men you have chosen

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.

⁴¹ Not indeed to every one, but to witnesses chosen beforehand by God--to us, who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.

²⁵ And now, I tell you, I know that none of you will ever see my face again--you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom. ²⁶ Therefore I declare to you this day, that my conscience is clear in regard to the fate of any of you, ²⁷ For I have not shrunk from announcing the whole purpose of God regarding you. ²⁸ Be watchful over yourselves, and over the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has placed you in charge, to shepherd the Church of God, which he won for himself at the cost of his life.

¹⁴ Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips;

⁵ Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.

¹³ I want you to know, Brothers, that I have many times intended coming to see you-but until now I have been prevented-that I might find among you some fruit of my labors, as I have already among the other nations.

¹¹ For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong, ¹² that 'the elder would be a servant to the younger.' ¹³ The words of Scripture are-'I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.' ¹⁴ What are we to say, then? Is God guilty of injustice? Heaven forbid! ¹⁵ For his words to Moses are-'I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.' ¹⁶ So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.

²¹ Has not the potter absolute power over his clay, so that out of the same lump he makes one thing for better, and another for common, use?

⁴ Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

¹⁵ But in parts of this letter I have expressed myself somewhat boldly--by way of refreshing your memories-- ¹⁶ Because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles--that I should act as a priest of God's Good News, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ It is, then, through my union with Christ Jesus that I have a proud confidence in my work for God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything but what Christ has done through me to win the obedience of the Gentiles-- ¹⁹ By my words and actions, through the power displayed in signs and marvels, and through the power of the Holy Spirit. And so, starting from Jerusalem and its neighborhood, and going as far as Illyria, I have told in full the Good News of the Christ;

⁶ I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth. ⁷ Therefore neither the man who plants, nor the man who waters, is of any account, but only God who causes the growth.

¹⁶ If I tell the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it! ¹⁷ If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty. ¹⁸ What is my reward, then? To present the Good News free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.

¹¹ These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.

¹⁵ But when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, and who called me by his love,

¹⁰ For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.

⁶ Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

²³ If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

⁷ and it was for this that I was myself appointed a Herald and an Apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie)--a Teacher of the Gentiles in the Faith and Truth.

¹¹ of which I was myself appointed a Herald and Apostle, and Teacher.

² and what you learnt from me, in the presence of many listeners, entrust to reliable men, who will be able in their turn to teach others.

¹⁵ and that, from your childhood, you have known the Sacred Writings, which can give you the wisdom that, through belief in Christ Jesus, leads to Salvation. ¹⁶ Everything that is written under divine inspiration is helpful for teaching, for refuting error, for giving guidance, and for training others in righteousness; ¹⁷ so that the Servant of God may be perfect himself, and perfectly equipped for every good action.

⁵ My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.

⁴ Faith made the sacrifice which Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain's, and won him renown as a righteous man, God himself establishing his renown by accepting his gifts; and it is by the example of his faith that Abel, though dead, still speaks.

¹⁸ And righteousness, its fruit, is sown in peace by those who work for peace.

¹⁴ Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance, ¹⁵ but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your Call. ¹⁶ For Scripture says-- 'You shall be holy, because I am holy.' ¹⁷ And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth. ¹⁸ For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors, ¹⁹ but by precious blood, as it were of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the Blood of Christ. ²⁰ Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes, ²¹ who, through him, are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and gave him honour, so that your faith and hope are now in God.

² as they watch your submissive and blameless conduct.

¹⁵ Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to any one who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it humbly and in all reverence,

¹⁰ His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

¹⁹ We love, because God first loved us.