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¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away;² and every one that beareth fruit, he purifieth it, that it may bear more fruit.³ Now ye are pure thro' the word which I have spoken to you.⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can ye, unless ye abide in me.⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, he beareth much fruit; but, separate from me, ye can do nothing.⁶ If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and is withered: and they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done for you.⁸ Hereby is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be my disciples.

⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you.¹⁰ Abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be full.¹² This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.¹³ No one hath greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. I no longer call you servants,¹⁵ for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and your fruit may remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.¹⁷ This I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know it hated me, before it hated you.¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.²¹ But all these things will they do to you, for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.²³ He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other did, they had not had sin:²⁴ but now have they seen them, and yet hated both me and my Father.²⁵ So that the word which is written in their law is fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.²⁷ Ye also testify, because ye have been with me from the beginning.