Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Ye have not chosen me, but I . . . you—a wholesale memento after the lofty things He had just said about their mutual indwelling, and the unreservedness of the friendship they had been admitted to.
ordained—appointed.
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit—that is, give yourselves to it.
and that your fruit should remain—showing itself to be an imperishable and ever growing principle. (Compare Proverbs 4:18; II John 1:8).
that whatsoever ye shall ask, etc.—(See on John 15:7).
That ye love one another, etc.—(See on John 13:34-35).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 15:16:
Isaiah 45:5
Hosea 14:4
Zechariah 3:2
Zechariah 3:7
Galatians 4:9
Ephesians 2:10
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