You did not choose me; I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last — so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you.
In context
14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me; I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last — so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you. 17This is my command to you: love one another. 18If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
