John:15

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* »I am the true vine , and my Father is the cultivator . * »He takes away the branches in me that do not bear fruit . He cleans every branch that bears fruit . That way it may bear more fruit . * »You are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you . * »Remain with me , and I with you . The branch cannot bear fruit by itself . It must remain on the vine . Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me . * »I am the vine and you are the branches . He that remains with me , and I with him , the same bears much fruit . You can do nothing apart from me . * »If a man does not remain with me , he is removed as a branch , and withers . They gather them and throw them into the fire where they are burned . * »If you remain with me , and my words remain with you , ask whatever you will , and it will be done for you . * »My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit . You will be my disciples . * »I love you just as the Father has loved me . Remain in my love . * »If you obey my commandments you will remain in my love . I have obeyed my Father ’s commandments and remain in his love . * »I spoke these things in order that my joy may continue with you and your joy may be made full . * »This is my commandment , that you love one another , even as I have loved you . * »No man has greater love then this that a man lay down his life for his friends . * »You are my friends if you do the things that I command you . * »I no longer call you servants for the servant does not know what the lord does . I have called you friends ; for all things that I heard from my Father , I have made known to you . * »You did not choose me . I chose you and appointed you . You should go and bear fruit and your fruit should remain . Whatever you ask the Father in my name , he may give it to you . * »These things I command you , that you may love one another . * »If the world hates you , you know that it has hated me before it hated you . * »If you were of the world , the world would love its own . I chose you out of the world . The world hates you because you are not of the world . * »Remember the word I said to you . A servant is not greater than his master . If they persecuted me , they will also persecute you . If they obeyed my word , they will obey yours also . * »They will do all these things to you for my name ’s sake . It is because they do not know the one that sent me . * »If I had not come and spoken to them , they would not have sin . Now they have no excuse for their sin ! * »He who hates me hates my Father also . * »If I had not done among them the works that no one else did , they would have no sin . They have seen and hated both my Father and me . * »This took place that the word written in the Law may be fulfilled : They hated me without a cause . * »I will send the helper from the Father , the Spirit of truth , which proceeds from the Father to bear witness of me . * »You also bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning .«

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