| 1 I am the true vine and my Father is the vinegrower. | |
| 2 If any of my branches doesn’t bear fruit, he breaks it off; and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, that it may bear even more fruit. | |
| 3 You are already made clean by the word I have spoken to you; | |
| 4 live in me as I live in you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself but has to remain part of the vine; so neither can you if you don’t remain in me. | |
| 5 I am the vine and you are the branches. As long as you remain in me and I in you, you bear much fruit; but apart from me you can do nothing. | |
| 6 Whoever does not remain in me is thrown away as they do with branches and they wither. Then they are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned. | |
| 7 If you remain in me and my words in you, you may ask whatever you want and it will be given to you. | |
| 8 My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit: it is then that you become my disciples. | |
| 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain in my love. | |
| 10 You will remain in my love if you keep my commandments, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. | |
| 11 I have told you all this, that my own joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. | |
| 12 This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. | |
| 13 There is no greater love than this, to give one’s life for one’s friends; | |
| 14 and you are my friends if you do what I command you. | |
| 15 I shall not call you servants any more, because servants do not know what their master is about. Instead I have called you friends, since I have made known to you everything I learned from my Father. | |
| 16 You did not choose me; it was I who chose you and sent you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. And everything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. | |
| 17 This is my command, that you love one another. | |
| 18 If the world hates you, remember that the world hated me before you. | |
| 19 This would not be so if you belonged to the world, because the world loves its own. But you are not of the world since I have chosen you from the world; because of this the world hates you. | |
| 20 Remember what I told you: the servant is not greater than his master; if they persecuted me, they will persecute you, too. If they kept my word, they keep yours as well. | |
| 21 All this they will do to you for the sake of my name because they do not know the One who sent me. | |
| 22 If I had not come to tell them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. | |
| 23 Those who hate me hate my Father. | |
| 24 If I had not done among them what no one else has ever done, they would have no sin. But after they have seen all this, they hate me and my Father, | |
| 25 and the words written in their law become true: They hated me without cause. | |
| 26 From the Father, I will send you the Spirit of truth. When this Helper has come from the Father, he will be my witness, | |
| 27 and you, too, will be my witnesses for you have been with me from the beginning. | |
