The True Vine

1. <red>I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.</red>

2. <red>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.</red>

3. <red>Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.</red>

4. <red>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.</red>

5. <red>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.</red>

6. <red>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.</red>

7. <red>If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.</red>

8. <red>Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.</red>

Love and Joy Perfected

9. <red>As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.</red>

10. <red>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.</red>

11. <red>These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.</red>

12. <red>This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.</red>

13. <red>Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.</red>

14. <red>Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.</red>

15. <red>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.</red>

16. <red>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.</red>

17. <red>These things I command you, that ye love one another.</red>

The World’s Hatred

18. <red>If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.</red>

19. <red>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.</red>

20. <red>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.</red>

21. <red>But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.</red>

22. <red>If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.</red>

23. <red>He that hateth me hateth my Father also.</red>

24. <red>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.</red>

25. <red>But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.</red>

The Coming Rejection

26. <red>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:</red>

27. <red>And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.</red>