ECB(i)
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ABIDING IN THE VINE
I AM the true vine, and my Father the cultivator. 2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purifies to bear much more fruit. 3 Already you are pure through the word I spoke to you. 4 Exactly as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine; thus neither can you unless you abide in me. 5 I AM the vine, you are the branches: whoever abides in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: for apart from me you can do naught. 6 Unless anyone abides in me, he is cast as a branch and withers; and men gather them and cast them into the fire and burn them. 7 Whenever you abide in me, and my rhema abides in you ask what you will, and thus it becomes to you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified - that you bear much fruit; thus you become my disciples. 9 Exactly as the Father loves me, thus I love you: you, abide in my love. 10 Whenever you guard my misvoth, you abide in my love; even exactly as I guard the misvoth of my Father, and abide in his love. 11 I speak these to you, so that my cheer abides in you, and to fill your cheer. 12 This is my misvah, to love one another, exactly as I love you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to place his soul for his friends: 14 you are my friends, whenever you do as much as ever I misvah you. 15
THE NEW RELATIONSHIP
Henceforth I word you not, servants; for the servant knows not what his adoni does: but I say of you, friends; for all I heard of my Father I made known to you. 16 You chose me not, but I chose you, and set you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit abide: that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he gives you. 17 These I misvah you: to love one another. 18 If the cosmos hates you, you know it hated me first. 19 If you are of the cosmos, the cosmos ever befriends his own: but because you are not of the cosmos, but I chose you from the cosmos, because of this the cosmos hates you. 20 Remember the word I said to you, The servant is not greater than his adoni. If they persecute me, they also persecute you; if they guard my word, they guard yours also. 21 But they do all these to you for sake of my name, because they know not him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no pretext for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this becomes, to fulfill/shalam the word scribed in their torah, They hated me gratuitously. Psalms 35:19, 69:4 26 And whenever the Paraclete comes - whom I send you from the Father - even the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he witnesses concerning me: 27 and you also witness, because you were with me from the beginning.
ABIDING IN THE VINE
I AM the true vine, and my Father the cultivator. 2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purifies to bear much more fruit. 3 Already you are pure through the word I spoke to you. 4 Exactly as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine; thus neither can you unless you abide in me. 5 I AM the vine, you are the branches: whoever abides in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: for apart from me you can do naught. 6 Unless anyone abides in me, he is cast as a branch and withers; and men gather them and cast them into the fire and burn them. 7 Whenever you abide in me, and my rhema abides in you ask what you will, and thus it becomes to you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified - that you bear much fruit; thus you become my disciples. 9 Exactly as the Father loves me, thus I love you: you, abide in my love. 10 Whenever you guard my misvoth, you abide in my love; even exactly as I guard the misvoth of my Father, and abide in his love. 11 I speak these to you, so that my cheer abides in you, and to fill your cheer. 12 This is my misvah, to love one another, exactly as I love you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to place his soul for his friends: 14 you are my friends, whenever you do as much as ever I misvah you. 15
THE NEW RELATIONSHIP
Henceforth I word you not, servants; for the servant knows not what his adoni does: but I say of you, friends; for all I heard of my Father I made known to you. 16 You chose me not, but I chose you, and set you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit abide: that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he gives you. 17 These I misvah you: to love one another. 18 If the cosmos hates you, you know it hated me first. 19 If you are of the cosmos, the cosmos ever befriends his own: but because you are not of the cosmos, but I chose you from the cosmos, because of this the cosmos hates you. 20 Remember the word I said to you, The servant is not greater than his adoni. If they persecute me, they also persecute you; if they guard my word, they guard yours also. 21 But they do all these to you for sake of my name, because they know not him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no pretext for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this becomes, to fulfill/shalam the word scribed in their torah, They hated me gratuitously. Psalms 35:19, 69:4 26 And whenever the Paraclete comes - whom I send you from the Father - even the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he witnesses concerning me: 27 and you also witness, because you were with me from the beginning.