Bible: John 15:16; 16:23

15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you 1  and appointed you to go and bear 2  fruit, fruit that remains, 3  so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

The Birth of Ishmael

16:1 Now Sarai, 1  Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, 2  but she had an Egyptian servant 3  named Hagar. 4 

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