I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

Every branch in me that does not give fruit, he takes away; and the one that gives fruit, he cleanses it so that it may give much fruit.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken with you.

Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot give fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him, this one gives much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.

But if a man does not remain in me, he is cast outside like a branch that dries up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire to burn.

But if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, whatever you wish to ask will be yours.

In this the Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples.

Just as my Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

If you keep my commands, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and abide in his love.

These things I have spoken with you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made complete.

This is my command, that you love one another as I have loved you.

There is no love greater than this, that a person lay down his life for his friends.

You are my friends if you do everything that I command you.

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master does; but I have called you my friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

It is not you who chose me, but I who have chosen you, and I have set you so that you also will go and bring forth fruit, and your fruit will remain, so that whatever you ask my Father in my name he will give you.

These things I command you, that you love one another.

And if the world hates you, know that it hated me before you.

And if you were of the world, the world would love its own. But you are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this reason the world hates you.

Remember the word that I spoke to you, that there is no servant who is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours.

But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

If I had not come and spoken with them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

And if I had not done among them the works that no other person did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and have hated both me and my Father.

so that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause.

But when the Comforter comes, whom I send to you from my Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from my Father, he will testify about me.

And you also testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.