I
am the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman.
02 Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it
may bring forth more fruit.
03 Now ye are clean through
the word which I have spoken unto you.
04 Abide in me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye,
except ye abide in me.
05 I am the vine, ye are
the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for
without me ye can do nothing.
06 If a man abide not in
me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into
the fire, and they are burned.
07 If ye abide in me, and
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.
08 Herein is my Father
glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye
be my disciples.
09 As the Father hath loved
me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as
I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide
in his love.
11 These things have I
spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you,
and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment,
That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye
do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you
not servants; for the servant knoweth not what
his lord doeth: but I have called you friends;
for all things that I have heard of my Father I
have made known unto you.
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16 Ye have not chosen me,
but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your
fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask
of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command
you, that ye love one another.
18 If the world hate you,
ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world,
the world would love his own: but because ye are
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of
the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I
said unto you, The servant is not greater than
his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you; if they have kept my saying,
they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things
will they do unto you for my name's sake, because
they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and
spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now
they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth
my Father also.
24 If I had not done among
them the works which none other man did, they had
not had sin: but now have they both seen and
hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass,
that the word might be fulfilled that is written
in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter
is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of
me:
27 And ye also shall bear
witness, because ye have been with me from the
beginning.
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