The true vine

1“I am the vine, the true one, ⁴⁵⁶and my Father is the vinedresser.

2Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, ⁴⁵⁷and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit. ⁴⁵⁸

3You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴⁵⁹

4Abide in me and I in you. ⁴⁶⁰Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.

5“I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything. ⁴⁶¹

6If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up. ⁴⁶²

7If you abide in me and my sayings ⁴⁶³abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.

8My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me. ⁴⁶⁴

We love

9“Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; ⁴⁶⁵abide in my love.

10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, ⁴⁶⁶just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.

11I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. ⁴⁶⁷

12This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. ⁴⁶⁸

13No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends. ⁴⁶⁹

14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

15“I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father. ⁴⁷⁰

16It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.

17These things I command you so that you love one another. ⁴⁷¹

The world hates

18“When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.

19If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. ⁴⁷²So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that is why the world hates you. ⁴⁷³

20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ ⁴⁷⁴If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21Now they will do all of these things to you because of my name, in that they do not know the One who sent me.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

24If I had not done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ⁴⁷⁵

25However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’ ⁴⁷⁶

26“Now when the Enabler comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me.

27And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. ⁴⁷⁷