“If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as it loves its own people.
But I have chosen you to be different from those in the world. So you don’t belong to the world, and that is why the world hates you.
They will do to you whatever they did to me, because you belong to me. They don’t know the one who sent me.
John 15:18-19, 21 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.15.18-21.ERV
“You did not choose me. I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and produce fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name.
John 15:16 ERV
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I have told you these things so that you can have the true happiness that I have. I want you to be completely happy.
John 15:11 ERV
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“I have loved you as the Father has loved me. Now continue in my love.
I have obeyed my Father’s commands, and he continues to love me. In the same way, if you obey my commands, I will continue to love you.
This is what I command you: Love each other as I have loved you.
John 15:9-10, 12 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.15.9-12.ERV
Show that you are my followers by producing much fruit. This will bring honor to my Father.
John 15:8 ERV
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Stay joined together with me, and follow my teachings. If you do this, you can ask for anything you want, and it will be given to you.
John 15:7 ERV
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Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit.
He also trims every branch that produces fruit to prepare it to produce even more.
You have already been prepared to produce more fruit by the teaching I have given you.
John 15:1-3 ERV
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Stay joined to me and I will stay joined to you. No branch can produce fruit alone. It must stay connected to the vine. It is the same with you. You cannot produce fruit alone. You must stay joined to me.
John 15:4 ERV
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“I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I to you, you will produce plenty of fruit. But separated from me you won’t be able to do anything.
John 15:5 ERV
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“I have told you all these things while I am with you. But the Helper will teach you everything and cause you to remember all that I told you. This Helper is the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name.
John 14:25-26 ERV
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“I leave you peace. It is my own peace I give you. I give you peace in a different way than the world does. So don’t be troubled. Don’t be afraid.
John 14:27 ERV
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Jesus answered, “All who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them. My Father and I will come to them and live with them.
But anyone who does not love me does not obey my teaching. This teaching that you hear is not really mine. It is from my Father who sent me.
John 14:23-24 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.14.23-24.ERV
My friends, don’t try to punish anyone who does wrong to you. Wait for God to punish them with his anger.
In the Scriptures the Lord says, “I am the one who punishes; I will pay people back.” Deuteronomy 32:35
But you should do this: “If you have enemies who are hungry, give them something to eat.
If you have enemies who are thirsty, give them something to drink.
In doing this you will make them feel ashamed.” Proverbs 25:21-22
Don’t let evil defeat you, but defeat evil by doing good.
Romans 12:19-21 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.12.19-21.ERV
The Helper is the Spirit of truth. The people of the world cannot accept him, because they don’t see him or know him. But you know him. He lives with you, and he will be in you.
John 14:17 ERV
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And if you ask for anything in my name, I will do it for you. Then the Father’s glory will be shown through the Son. If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.
John 14:13-14 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.14.13-14.ERV
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or believe because of the miracles I have done.
I can assure you that whoever believes in me will do the same things I have done. And they will do even greater things than I have done, because I am going to the Father.
John 14:11-12 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.14.11-12.ERV
Jesus said, “Don’t be troubled. Trust in God, and trust in me.
John 14:1 ERV
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There are many rooms in my Father’s house. I would not tell you this if it were not true.
I am going there to prepare a place for you. After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back.
Then I will take you with me, so that you can be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Thomas said, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.
John 14:2-6 ERV
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Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I am ready to die for you!”
Jesus answered, “Will you really give your life for me? The truth is, before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you don’t know me.”
John 13:37-38 ERV
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““I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other just as I loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.””
John 13:34-35 ERV
https://www.bible.com/406/jhn.13.34-35.erv
I assure you, whoever accepts the person I send also accepts me. And whoever accepts me also accepts the one who sent me.”
John 13:20 ERV
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You call me ‘Teacher.’ And you call me ‘Lord.’ And this is right, because that is what I am. I am your Lord and Teacher.
But I washed your feet. So you also should wash each other’s feet.
Believe me, servants are not greater than their master. Those who are sent to do something are not greater than the one who sent them.
If you know these things, great blessings will be yours if you do them.
John 13:13-14, 16-17 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.13.13-17.ERV
The Father had given Jesus power over everything. Jesus knew this. He also knew that he had come from God. And he knew that he was going back to God.
So while they were eating, Jesus stood up and took off his robe. He got a towel and wrapped it around his waist.
Then he poured water into a bowl and began to wash the followers’ feet. He dried their feet with the towel that was wrapped around his waist.
John 13:3-5 ERV
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It was almost time for the Jewish Passover festival. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go back to the Father.
Jesus had always loved the people in the world who were his. Now was the time he showed them his love the most.
John 13:1 ERV
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You will not have to fight this battle. Just stand there and watch the Lord save you.
Judah and Jerusalem, don’t be afraid. Don’t worry, because the Lord is with you. So go out to stand against those people tomorrow.’”
2 Chronicles 20:17 ERV
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Our God, punish those people. We don’t have the strength to stop this large army that is coming against us. We don’t know what to do! We are looking to you for help.”
Jahaziel said, “Listen to me King Jehoshaphat and everyone living in Judah and Jerusalem! The Lord says this to you: ‘Don’t be afraid or worry about this large army, because the battle is not your battle. It is God’s battle!
2 Chronicles 20:12, 15 ERV
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“I did not come into the world to judge people. I came to save the people in the world.
So I am not the one who judges those who hear my teaching and do not obey.
But there is a judge for all those who refuse to believe in me and do not accept what I say.
The message I have spoken will judge them on the last day.
John 12:47-48 ERV
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My God, listen to me! Open your eyes and see all the terrible things that have happened to us. See what has happened to the city that is called by your name.
I am not saying we are good people. That is not why I am asking these things. I am asking these things because I know you are kind.
Daniel 9:18 ERV
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Then Jesus said loudly, “Everyone who believes in me is really believing in the one who sent me.
And I know that whatever he says to do will bring eternal life. So the things I say are exactly what the Father told me to say.”
John 12:44, 50 ERV
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Then Jesus said loudly, “Everyone who believes in me is really believing in the one who sent me. Everyone who sees me is really seeing the one who sent me.
I came into this world as a light. I came so that everyone who believes in me will not stay in darkness.
John 12:44-46 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/jhn.12.44-46.ERV
But many people believed in Jesus. Even many of the Jewish leaders believed in him, but they were afraid of the Pharisees, so they did not say openly that they believed.
They were afraid they would be ordered to stay out of the synagogue. They loved praise from people more than praise from God.
John 12:42-43 ERV
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