Jesus the True Vine

1I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth no fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it clean, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing. 6If any man abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done for you. 8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

No Greater Love

9Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. 10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father?s commandments, and as I abide in his love. 11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may abide in you, and your joy may be full.

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

13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever things I command you. 15I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father. 16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17These things I command you, that ye love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you. 19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you. 20Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your?s also. 21But all these things will they do unto you for my name?s sake, because they know not him that sent me. 22Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24If I had not done among them the works which no other ever did, they would not have had sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, ?They hated me without a cause.?

26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning.