¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

²Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes it away; and every one that bears fruit, He prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit.

³Already you yourselves are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

⁴Abide in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵I Myself am the vine, you are the branches. The one abiding in Me Myself and I Myself in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you are not able to do anything.

⁶If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown out like the branch and withers; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and it is burned.

⁷If you shall abide in Me and my words shall abide in you, whatever you shall wish, ask, and it will happen to you.

⁸In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

⁹Just as the Father has loved Me, I myself also loved you; abide in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love; just as I myself have kept my Father's commandments, and I abide in His love.

¹¹These things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be full.

¹²This is my commandment, that you may love one another even as I loved you.

¹³No one has greater selfless love than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You yourselves are my friends, if you do whatever I myself command you.

¹⁵No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because everything that I heard from my Father I have made known to you.

¹⁶You yourselves did not choose Me, but I myself chose you and appointed you, so that you yourselves may go and bear fruit, and your fruit may remain; so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name, He may give you.

¹⁷These things I command you, that you may love one another.

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you.

¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would be loving what is its own; but because you are not of the world, but I myself chose you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

²⁰Remember the word that I myself said to you: A slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

²¹But all these things they will do against you on account of my name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

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

²³The one who hates Me also hates my Father.

²⁴If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and my Father.

²⁵But this is so that the word written in their law may be fulfilled: 'They hated Me without cause.'

²⁶But when the Advocate comes, whom I myself will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father, that One will bear witness about Me.

²⁷And you yourselves also bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.