1 | "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. |
2 | Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. |
3 | You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. |
4 | Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, 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 it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. |
6 | If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. |
7 | If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. |
8 | By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. |
9 | As the Father has loved me, so have I 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, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. |
12 | "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
13 | Greater love has no man than this, that a man 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 servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all 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 should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. |
17 | This I command you, to love one another. |