15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

15:2 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.

15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto

you.

15:4 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.

15:5 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.

15:6 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.

15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask

what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so

shall ye be my disciples.

15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue

ye in my love.

15:10 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.

15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might

remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.

15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I

have loved you.

15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down

his life for his friends.

15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

15:15 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.

15:16 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.

15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it

hated] you.

15:19 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.

15:20 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.

15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's

sake, because they know not him that sent me.

15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had

sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

15:24 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.

15:25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be

fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a

cause.

15:26 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:

15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with

me from the beginning.

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