1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch
that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide
in me (in the Word I give you), and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me (The Word).
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and
is withered; and men gather them, 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
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein 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: continue ye in
my love. 10 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 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain
in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That
ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my
friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not
servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have
called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have
made known unto you.
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you,
that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you.
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated
you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his 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 unto 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 unto you for my name’s sake,
because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
but now they have no cloke for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth
my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none
other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and
hated both me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word
might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a
cause.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye
have been with me from the beginning.