If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

He answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

I do not speak concerning all of you. I know [those] whom I chose; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.'

And when it became day, He summoned His disciples, and having chosen twelve from them, whom He also named apostles:

And they prayed and said, "You, O Lord, knower of all hearts, show whom You have chosen of these two"

But the Lord said to him, "Go [your way], for he is a chosen vessel to Me to bear My name before Gentiles and kings, and the sons of Israel.

not to all the people, but to witnesses, who having been chosen beforehand by God, [even] to us, who ate together and drank together with Him after He arose from the dead.

And he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice from His mouth.

for [the children] not yet being born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works but of Him who calls,

As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

We love Him because He first loved us.

Therefore Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! Just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."

If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain [the sins] of any, they have been retained."

So when they had eaten 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 care for You." He said to him, "Feed My lambs."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you care for Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you care for Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I care for You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

Hearken to Me, you islands; and attend, you Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, says the Lord; from my mother's womb He has called my name;

and said to me, You are My servant, O Israel, and in you I will be glorified.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth from the womb, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child; for you shall go to all to whomsoever I shall send you, and according to all [the words] that I shall command you, you shall speak.

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Go [therefore] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

And He said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to all creation.

He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that does not believe shall be condemned.

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

And behold, I am sending the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high."

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name,

And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God,

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For if I preach the gospel, there is nothing for me to boast about, for necessity is pressed upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!

What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ free of charge, so as not to exploit my rights in the gospel.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

if indeed you continue in the faith, having been founded and firm and not drifting away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was proclaimed to all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

for which I was appointed a herald and apostle--I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.

to which I was appointed a herald and apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

And the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be competent to teach others also.

For this reason I left you behind in Crete, so that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and you should appoint elders in every city as I commanded you:

By this My Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and you will become My disciples.

Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life, but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

For as the rain shall come down, or snow from heaven, and shall not return until it has saturated the earth, and it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower, and bread for food;

For you shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness; for the mountains and the hills shall exalt to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.

that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out through me, in word and deed, for the obedience of [the] Gentiles--

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gives the increase.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those making peace.

But Abraham shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I have declared Your [mighty] arm to all the generation that is to come;

They were not hid from their children to a second generation; [the fathers] declaring the praises of the Lord, and His mighty acts, and His wonders which He has done.

that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

Generation after generation shall praise Your works, and tell of Your power.

And be not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they did not hear, nor heed Me, says the Lord.

But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.

And now behold, now I know that you all, among whom I have passed through preaching the kingdom of God, will no longer see my face.

For I did not draw back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction, that through the patience and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.

Now all these things happened to those [people] as examples, and they were written for our instruction, to whom the ends of the ages have come.

and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying concerning his gifts; and through it, although he died, he still speaks.

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves [after] the former lusts, [as you did in] your ignorance;

because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

having been foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, He was made manifest in these last times for you,

when they observe your chaste conduct with fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be prepared with a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what ever you may desire, and it shall be done for you.

And whatever you may ask in My name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you should ask anything in My name, I will do [it].

And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.

Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

And all things, as many as you may ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."