1: I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
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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.
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Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
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4: Abide in me, 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. |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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8: Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be
my disciples. |
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9: As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my
love. |
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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. |
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11: These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you,
and that your joy might be full. |
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12: This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved
you. |
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13: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for
his friends. |
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14: Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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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. |
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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. |
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17: These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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18: If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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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. |
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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. |
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21: But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
because they know not him that sent me. |
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22: If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now
they have no cloke for their sin. |
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23: He that hateth me hateth my Father also. |
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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.
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25: But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is
written in their law, They hated me without a cause. |
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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: |
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27: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the
beginning. |