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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.