| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father's commandments and remain in his love. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14You are my friends if you do what I command. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn't confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You didn't choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17This is my command: Love each other. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do you remember what I told you? 'A slave is not greater than the master.' Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24If I hadn't done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures: 'They hated me without cause.' |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"But I will send you the Advocate--the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007.
Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All Rights Reserved. |
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