“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, 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. 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.”
“18 If 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.” (John 15:1-27 AV)
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