- I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
- He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
- You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
- Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
- I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
- If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
- If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
- This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
- As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
- If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
- I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- You are my friends if you do what I command.
- I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
- You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit— fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
- This is my command: Love each other.
- If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
- If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
- Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
- They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me.
- If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
- He who hates me hates my Father as well.
- If I had not done among them what no-one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
- But this is to fulfil what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'
- When the Counsellor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
- And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
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