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Chapter 15 |
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1 | I am the true vine, and my Father is
the husbandman. |
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2 | 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. |
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3 | Now ye are clean through the word which I have
spoken unto you. |
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4 | 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. |
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8 | Herein is my Father
glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. |
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As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
