1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it may bear more fruit.
3You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
4Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
5I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him is the one who bears much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8By this my Father is glorified: that you bear much fruit and so become my disciples.
9Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love.
10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you.
13No one has greater love than this: that one lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15No longer do I call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.
16You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you.
17These things I command you: that you love one another.
18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.
19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23The one who hates me also hates my Father.
24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25But this is so that the word written in their Law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.
27And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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