Jesus the True Vine

1I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser. 2Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3Now are you pure, through the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If any one abide not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and such are gathered, and thrown into the fire, and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done for you. 8In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and in this you will be my disciples.

No Greater Love

9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

12This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

13Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. 15I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you. 17These things I command you, that you may love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you on my account, because they know not him that sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He that hates me, hates my Father also. 24If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen, and hated both me and my Father. 25But this is so, that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26But when the Paraclete has come, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me; 27and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.