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Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches

¹ "^(C1)I am the true vine, and My Father is the ^(C2)vinedresser.² "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ^(F1)prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.³ "^(C1)You are already ^(F1)clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.⁴ "^(C1)Remain in Me, ^(F1)and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit ^(F2)of itself ^(F3)but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.⁵ "I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him ^(F1)(C1)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.⁶ "If anyone does not remain in Me, he is ^(C1)thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.⁷ "If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ^(C1)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.⁸ "My ^(C1)Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^(F1)(C2)prove to be My disciples.⁹ "Just as ^(C1)the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.¹⁰ "^(C1)If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as ^(C2)I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love.¹¹ "^(C1)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(C2)joy may be made full.

Disciples' Relation to Each Other

¹² "This is ^(C1)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.¹³ "^(C1)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will ^(C2)lay down his life for his friends.¹⁴ "You are My ^(C1)friends if ^(C2)you do what I command you.¹⁵ "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because ^(C1)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.¹⁶ "^(C1)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(C2)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(C3)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.¹⁷ "This ^(C1)I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples' Relation to the World

¹⁸ "^(C1)If the world hates you, ^(F1)you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.¹⁹ "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(C1)I chose you out of the world, ^(C2)because of this the world hates you.²⁰ "Remember the word that I said to you, '^(C1)A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, ^(C2)they will persecute you as well; if they ^(C3)followed My word, they will follow yours also.²¹ "But all these things they will do to you ^(C1)on account of My name, ^(C2)because they do not know the One who sent Me.²² "^(C1)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^(F1)sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.²³ "The one who hates Me hates My Father also.²⁴ "^(C1)If I had not done among them ^(C2)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^(F1)sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.²⁵ "But this has happened so that the word that is written in their ^(C1)Law will be fulfilled: '^(C2)THEY HATED ME FOR NO REASON.'

²⁶ "When the ^(F1)(C1)Helper comes, ^(C2)whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, ^(C3)the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, ^(C4)He will testify about Me,²⁷ and ^(F1)(C1)you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me ^(C2)from the beginning.