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The Gospel of John |
01 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
02 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.
03 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.
08 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples.
09 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 have 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 fruit, 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.