Jesus the True Vine

1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman: 2every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away, and every one that beareth fruit, He purgeth, that it may bear more fruit. 3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide therefore in me, and I will abide in you: for as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, 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, beareth much fruit: but without me ye can do nothing. 6If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a useless branch and withereth: and they gather them up, and throw them into the fire, and they are burnt. 7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shall be granted you. 8Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

No Greater Love

9As the Father hath loved me, and I have loved you, continue in my love: 10and if ye keep my commandments ye will continue in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love. 11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy in you may continue, and that your joy may be full.

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

13Greater love hath no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends: 14and ye are my friends, if ye do what I command you. 15I no longer stile you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth: but I have called you friends; for whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you. 17These commands I give you, that ye should love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first. 19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20Remember what 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 observed my word, they will also observe yours. 21But all these things will they do unto you, on my account, because they know not Him that sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not 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 such works as no other ever did, they had not comparatively had sin: but now they have both seen, and hated, both me and my Father. 25But thus it is that the word might be fulfilled, which is written in their law, they hated me without a cause.

26But when the comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, (even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,) He shall testify of me. 27And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.