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