John 15:16

16You did not choose me, but aI chose you and appointed you that you should go and bbear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that cwhatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Galatians 4:9

9But now that you have come to know God, or rather dto be known by God, ehow can you turn back again to fthe weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Copyright information for ESV