John 15

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1 I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, He cuts off; And every one that beareth fruit, purifyeth, that he bringeth forth more fruit.
3 You are already purified through the word that I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, if it is not in the vine: so you, if you do not exist in Me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches; He that abideth in me, and I in him, he bringeth forth much fruit; For without me ye can do nothing.
6th He who does not abide in Me will be cast out like a branch, and wither; And such [branches] are collected and thrown into the fire, and they burn.
7th If you abide in me and my words abide in you, then whatever you wish, ask, and it will be you.
8 Therefore, My Father will be glorified, if you bear much fruit and become My disciples.

9 As the Father has loved me, and I have loved you; Abide in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
eleven These things I have spoken unto 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 There is no more love than if someone laid down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his lord does; But I called you friends, because I have told you all that I heard from my Father.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and set you up, so that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He gave to you.
17th These things I command you, that you love one another.

18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; But as you are not of the world, but I have chosen you from the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; If they have kept my word, they will keep yours.
21 But all these things will they do for your name, because they do not know who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done works among them, which no one else had done, they would have had no sin; But now they have seen, and they have hated both me and my Father.
25 But that the word might be fulfilled which was written in their law: they hated me in vain.

26th When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me;
27th And also you will testify, because you are first with Me.

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