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Chapter 15 | |
1 | I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. |
2 | Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he 1taketh away:
and every branch that 2beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth
more fruit.
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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. |
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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 1cast 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 1ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you.
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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. |
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you.
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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
1servant 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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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.
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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. |
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