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[1]I AM the true vine, and my Father is the worker.
[2]Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he cuts out; and the one which bears fruit, he prunes so that it may bring forth more fruit.
[3]You have already been pruned because of the word which I have spoken to you.
[4]Remain with me and I with you. Just as a branch cannot give fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine; even so you cannot, unless you remain with me.
[5]I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains with me and I with him, will bear abundant fruit; for without me you can do nothing.
[6]Unless a man remains with me, he will be cast outside, like a branch which is withered; which they pick up and throw into the fire to be burned.
[7]If you remain with me, and my words remain with you, whatever you ask shall be done for you.
[8]In this the Father will be glorified, that you bear abundant fruit, and be my disciples.
[9]Just as my Father has loved me, I also have loved you; remain in my love.
[10]If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and I remain in his love.
[11]I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
[12]This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
[13]There is no greater love than this, when a man lays down his life for the sake of his friends.
[14]You are my friends, if you do everything that I command you.
[15]Henceforth I will not call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master does; but I have always called you my friends, because everything that I heard from my Father I made it known to you.
[16]You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I have appointed you, that you also should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever you ask my Father in my name, he will give it to you.
[17]I command these things to you, so that you love one another.
[18]If the world hate you, know well that it has hated me before you.
[19]If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; this is why the world hates you.
[20]Remember the word which I said to you, that no servant is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
[21]But they will do all these things to you for the sake of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
[22]If I had not come and spoken to them, they would be without sin; but now they have no excuse for their sins.
[23]He who hates me, hates my Father also.
[24]If I had not done works before their eyes, such as no other man has ever done, they would be without sin; but now they have seen and hated me and also my Father,
[25]So that the word which is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me for no reason.
[26]But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from my Father, he will testify concerning me.
[27]And you also will testify because you have been with me from the beginning.
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