John:15
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I am the true vine ,
and My Father is the vinedresser .
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Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away ;
and every branch that bears fruit He prunes ,
that it may bear more fruit .
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You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you .
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Abide in Me ,
and I in you .
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself ,
unless it abides in the vine ,
neither can you ,
unless you abide in Me .
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I am the vine ,
you are the branches .
He who abides in Me ,
and I in him ,
bears much fruit ;
for without Me you can do nothing .
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If anyone does not abide in Me ,
he is cast out as a branch and is withered ;
and they gather them and throw them into the fire ,
and they are burned .
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If you abide in Me ,
and My words abide in you ,
you will ask what you desire ,
and it shall be done for you .
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By this My Father is glorified ,
that you bear much fruit ;
so you will be My disciples .
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As the Father loved Me ,
I also have loved you ;
abide in My love .
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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 .
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These things I have spoken to you ,
that My joy may remain in you ,
and that your joy may be full .
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This is My commandment ,
that you love one another as I have loved you .
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Greater love has no one than this ,
than to lay down one '
s life for his friends .
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You are My friends if you do whatever I command you .
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No longer do I call you servants ,
for a servant does not know what his master is doing ;
but I have called you friends ,
for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you .
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You did not choose Me ,
but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit ,
and that your fruit should remain ,
that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you .
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These things I command you ,
that you love one another .
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If the world hates you ,
you know that it hated Me before it hated you .
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If you were of the world ,
the world would love its own .
Yet because you are not of the world ,
but I chose you out of the world ,
therefore the world hates you .
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Remember the word that I said to you , "
A servant is not greater than his master .'
If they persecuted Me ,
they will also persecute you .
If they kept My word ,
they will keep yours also .
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But all these things they will do to you for My name '
s sake ,
because they do not know Him who sent Me .
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If I had not come and spoken to them ,
they would have no sin ,
but now they have no excuse for their sin .
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He who hates Me hates My Father also .
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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did ,
they would have no sin ;
but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father .
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But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law , "
They hated Me without a cause .'
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But when the Helper comes ,
whom I shall send to you from the Father ,
the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father ,
He will testify of Me .
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And you also will bear witness ,
because you have been with Me from the beginning .