15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vintner.
15:2 He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.
15:3 You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.
15:4 "Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
15:6 Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.
15:7 "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.
15:8 This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
15:9 Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love.
15:10 If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
15:11 I've told you this, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
15:12 "This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.
15:13 No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.
15:14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
15:15 I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.
15:16 "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
15:17 I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."
15:18 "If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.
15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
15:20 Remember what I told 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.
15:21 They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
15:22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
15:23 The person who hates me also hates my Father.
15:24 If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
15:25 But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: 'They hated me for no reason.'
15:26 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father— the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father—he will testify on my behalf.
15:27 You will testify also, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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