¹ I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he shall take away; and every one that bears fruit, he shall purge that they may bring forth more fruit.

³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abides in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵ I AM the vine, ye [are] the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

⁶ He who does not abide in me shall be cast forth as an [unsound] branch and shall wither, and they are gathered and cast into the fire and are burned.

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.

⁸ In this is my Father clarified, in that ye bear much fruit; and in this manner ye shall be my disciples.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.

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 I have spoken unto you that my joy may abide in you and [that] your joy might be fulfilled.

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

¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his soul for his friends.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.

¹⁵ From now on I do not call you servants, for the servant does not know what his lord does; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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 whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it [unto] you.

¹⁷ This I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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 word, they will keep yours also.

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

²² If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³ He that hates me hates my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done among them works which no other man has done, they would not have sin; but now they have seen [them] and hate both me and my Father.

²⁵ But [this comes 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 proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me;

²⁷ and ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning.: