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16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. I gave you a big work to do. That work is to go out and do good things and to make the good things that you do remain strong. If you do that, my Father will do anything you ask in my name.

17 `Here is the law I gave you. Love each other.'

18 `If the world hates you, remember that it hated me before it hated you.

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16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you(A) so that you might go and bear fruit(B)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.(C) 17 This is my command: Love each other.(D)

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you,(E) keep in mind that it hated me first.

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