1 |I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 |Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every [branch] that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
3 |You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 |Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither [can] you unless you abide in Me.
5 |I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
6 |If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.
7 |If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 |My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and [so] prove to be My disciples.
9 |Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.
10 |If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 |These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made full.
12 |This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
13 |Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
14 |You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15 |No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16 |You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
17 |This I command you, that you love one another.
18 |If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before [it hated] you.
19 |If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
20 |Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 |But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
