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.

Romans 7:4

4Likewise, my brothers, dyou also have died eto the law fthrough the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, gin order that we may bear fruit for God.
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