John 15
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1I am the vine, the true one, and the Father of me is the farmer. 2Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away, and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit. 3Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself if it does not abide in the vine, so neither can you if you do not abide in me. 5I am the vine, you the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out as the branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7If you abide in me and the words of me in you abide, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9Just as the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, that the joy, my own, may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled. 12This is the commandment, my own: that you love one another, just as I loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what whatever I command you. 15No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his Lord is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you. 17These things I command you, that you love one another. 18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you: A slave is not greater than his Lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you for my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23The one hating me hates my Father also. 24If I did not do among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25But this happened so that the word written in their law may be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.' 26But when the Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify concerning me. 27and you also testify, because you are with me from the beginning.
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