John:15:16-18
wmth@John:15:16 @ It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.
wmth@John:15:17 @ »Thus I command you to love one another.«
wmth@John:15:18 @ If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.