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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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5 | 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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6 | 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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7 | 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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9 | 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. |
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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. |
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13 | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends. |
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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. |
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18 | If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you. |
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19 | 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. |
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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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23 | He that hateth me hateth my Father also. |
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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. |
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25 | But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that
is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. |
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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: |
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27 | And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me
from the beginning. |
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