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| 15 | John |
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'I AM THE REAL VINE, and my Father is the gardener. | Jesus the True Vine Jn.15.1-17 (Jerusalem) - |
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Every barren branch of mine he cuts away; and every fruiting branch he cleans, to make it more fruitful still. | |
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You have already been cleansed by the word that I spoke to you. | |
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Dwell in me, as I in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself, but only if it remains united with the vine; no more can you bear fruit, unless you remain united with me.
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'I am the vine, and you the branches. He who dwells in me, as I dwell in him, bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing. | |
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He who does not dwell in me is thrown away like a withered branch. The withered branches are heaped together, thrown on the fire, and burnt.
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'If you dwell in me, and my words dwell in you, ask what you will, and you shall have it. | |
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This is my Father's glory, that you may bear fruit in plenty and so be my disciples. | |
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As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Dwell in my love. | |
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If you heed my commands, you will dwell in my love, as I have heeded my Father's commands and dwell in his love.
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'I have spoken thus to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy complete. | |
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This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you. | |
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There is no greater love than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends. | |
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You are my friends, if you do what I command you. | |
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I call you servants no longer; a servant does not know what his master is about. I have called you friends, because I have disclosed to you everything that I heard from my Father. | |
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You did not choose me: I chose you. I appointed you to go on and bear fruit, fruit that shall last; so that the Father may give you all that you ask in my name. | |
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This is my commandment to you: love one another.
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'If the world hates you, it hated me first, as you know well. | The World's Hatred Jn.15.18-16.4 (Jerusalem) - |
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If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. | |
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Remember what I said: "A servant is not greater than his master." As they persecuted me, they will persecute you; they will follow your teaching as little as they have followed mine. | |
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It is on my account that they will treat you thus, because they do not know the One who sent me.
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'If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for a their sin: | |
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he who hates me, hates my Father. | |
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If I had not worked among them and accomplished what no other man has done, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. | |
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However, this text in their Law had to come true: "They hated me without reason."
| - They hated me without a cause Jn.15.25 - Ps.35.19, Ps.69.4 |
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'But when your Advocate has come, whom I will send you from the Father—the Spirit of truth that issues from the Father—he will bear witness to me. | |
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And you also are my witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.
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