John 15

Godbey^{(i) 1} I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit. ³ So ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to produce fruit of itself, unless it may abide in the vine; so you are not able, unless you may abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, and ye are the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: because you are not able to do anything without me. ⁶ If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt. ⁷ If you may abide in me, and my words may abide in you, ask whatsoever you may wish, and it shall be done unto you. ⁸ In this my Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and ye shall be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father loved me, I also loved you: abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you may keep my commandments, abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and I abide in His love. ¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is my commandment, that you may love one another, as I loved you. ¹³ No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you may do those things which I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; because all things which I heard with my Father, I made known unto you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you, and placed you in your position, that you may go forth and bear fruit, and your fruit may abide: in order that He may give you whatsoever you may ask in my name. ¹⁷ I command these things unto you, that you must love one another with divine love. ¹⁸ If the world hates you, know that it first hated me. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know Him that sent me. ²² If I did not come and speak to them, they had not sin: now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one hating me hates my Father also. ²⁴ If I did not works among them which no other did: they had not sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But in order that the word having been written in their law may be fulfilled, That they hated me gratuitously. ²⁶ When the Comforter, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, may come, He will witness concerning me, ²⁷ but you indeed are witnesses, because you are with me from the beginning.