1 | I am the true
vine, and my Father is the husbandman. |
2 | Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:
and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth
more fruit. |
3 | Now ye are
clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. |
4 | Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye,
except ye abide in me. |
5 |
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. |
6 | If a man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the
fire, and they are burned. |
7 |
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you. |
8
| Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be
my disciples. |
9 | As the
Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. |
10 | If ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide
in his love. |
11 | These
things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your
joy might be full. |
12 |
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. |
13 | Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. |
14 | Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you. |
15 | Henceforth I
call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I
have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have
made known unto you. |
16 |
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should
go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye
shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. |
17 | These things I command you, that ye
love one another. |
18 | If
the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. |
19 | If ye were of the world, the world
would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you
out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. |
20 | Remember the word that 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 kept my saying, they will keep yours also. |
21 | But all these things will
they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent
me. |
22 | If I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for
their sin. |
23 | He that
hateth me hateth my Father also. |
24 | If I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my
Father. |
25 | But this
cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law,
They hated me without a cause.
Ps 35:19,
69:4
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26
| But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall
testify of me: |
27 | And ye
also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. |