¹“ I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer .

²Every branch in me that doesn’ t bear fruit , he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit , he prunes , that it may bear more fruit .

³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you .

⁴Remain in me , and I in you . As the branch can ’ t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you , unless you remain in me .

⁵I am the vine. You are the branches . He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit , for apart from me you can do nothing .

⁶If a man doesn’ t remain in me , he is thrown out as a branch and is withered ; and they gather them , throw them into the fire , and they are burnt .

⁷If you remain in me , and my words remain in you , you will ask whatever you desire , and it will be done for you .

⁸“ In this my Father is glorified , that you bear much fruit ; and so you will be my disciples .

⁹Even as the Father has loved me , I also have loved you . Remain in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my commandments , you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father ’s commandments and remain in his love.

¹¹I have spoken these things to you , that my joy may remain in you , and that your joy may be made full .

¹²“ This is my commandment , that you love one another , even as I have loved you .

¹³Greater love has no one than this , that someone lay down his life for his friends .

¹⁴You are my friends if you do whatever I command you .

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants , for the servant doesn’ t know what his lord does . But I have called you friends , for everything that I heard from my Father , I have made known to you .

¹⁶You didn’ t choose me , but I chose you and appointed you , that you should go and bear fruit , and that your fruit should remain ; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name , he may give it to you .

¹⁷“ I command these things to 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 , since 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 also keep yours .[#John 13:16]

²¹But they will do all these things to you for my name ’s sake , because they don’ t 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 hadn’ t done amongst them the works which no one else did , they wouldn’ t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father .

²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law , ‘ They hated me without a cause .’[#Psalms 35:19; 69:4]

²⁶“ When the Counsellor has come , whom I will send to you from the Father , the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father , he will testify about me .[#15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counsellor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.]

²⁷You will also testify , because you have been with me from the beginning.