1I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes it away: and every branch that bears fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit. 3Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine; so neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches: He who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. 8In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you shall be my disciples. 9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. 12This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lays down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends, if you do the things which I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants; for the servant does not know what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, that you may love one another. 18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake, because they do not know him who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hates me hates my Father also. 24If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25But this comes to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Torah, They hated me without a cause. 26But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall bear witness of me: 27and you also bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.