15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
15:2 He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
15:3 You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
15:4 Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
15:6 Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
15:7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
15:8 By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
15:9 As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
15:10 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.
15:11 “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
15:12 This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
15:13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15:15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
15:16 It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
15:18 “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
15:20 Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is 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 And 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 have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.
15:24 If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
15:25 But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’
15:26 “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.
15:27 And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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