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Chapter 15
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I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. |
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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. |
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Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken
unto you. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. |
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Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit;
so shall ye be my disciples. |
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As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue
ye in my love. |
10
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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. |
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These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might
remain in you, and that your joy might be full. |
12
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This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as
I have loved you. |
13
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends. |
14
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. |
15
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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. |
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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. |
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These things I command you, that ye love one another. |
18
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before
it hated you. |
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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. |
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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. |
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But all these things will they do unto you for my name's
sake, because they know not him that sent me. |
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If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not
had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. |
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He that hateth me hateth my Father also. |
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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. |
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But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled
that is written in their law, They hated me without a
cause. |
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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: |
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And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been
with me from the beginning. |
