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[1]I am the true vine; and my Father is the cultivator.
[2]Every branch in me, which yieldeth not fruits, he taketh it away: and that which yieldeth fruits, he cleanseth it, that it may yield more fruits.
[3]Ye henceforth are clean, on account of the discourse I have held with you .
[4]Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot yield fruits of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so also, neither can ye, unless ye abide in me.
[5]I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he yieldeth much fruit; for without me, ye can do nothing.
[6]And if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a withered branch; and they gather it up, and cast it into the fire to be burned.
[7]But if ye shall abide in me, and my instructions shall abide in you, whatever ye shall be pleased to ask, it will be given to you.
[8]In this is the Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye will be my disciples.
[9]As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in the love of me.
[10]If ye shall keep my commands, ye will abide in the love of me, as I have kept the commands of my Father, and abide in his love.
[11]These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
[12]This is my command, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
[13]There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
[14]Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command you.
[15]I no longer call you servants; because a servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you my friends; because, whatever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
[16]It is not ye that chose me, but I that have chosen you; and I have appointed you, that ye also should go and yield fruits, and that your fruits should continue; so that whatever ye may ask of my Father in my name, he may give it you.
[17]These things I command you, that ye should love one another.
[18]And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you.
[19]And if ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth you.
[20]Remember the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, they will also observe yours.
[21]But all these things will they do to you, on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.
[22]If I had not come and discoursed with them, sin would not have been to them; but now there is no excuse for their sins.
[23]He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
[24]If I had not wrought before them works which no other person ever did, sin would not have been to them: but now they have seen, and have hated, both me and my Father;
[25]so that in them will be fulfilled the word which is written in their law: They hated me, without a cause.
[26]But when the Comforter shall come, whom I will send to you from my Father, that Spirit of truth who proceedeth from the Father, He will testify of me.
[27]And do ye also testify; for ye have been with me from the beginning.
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