1 I
am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit.
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.
6 If a man abide not in me, he
is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather
them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall
be done unto you.
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.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do
whatsoever I command you.
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 haved
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 fruti, 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 servant 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.
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.
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. |