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| 15 | John |
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. | Jesus the True Vine Jn.15.1-17 (Jerusalem) - |
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Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. | |
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You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. | |
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Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. | |
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I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. | |
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If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. | |
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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. | |
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By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. | |
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. | |
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If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. | |
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These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. | |
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"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | |
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Greater love has no man than this, that a man 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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No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. | |
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. | |
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This I command you, to love one another. | |
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"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. | The World's Hatred Jn.15.18-16.4 (Jerusalem) - |
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. | |
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Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. | |
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But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me. | |
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. | |
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He who hates me hates my Father also. | |
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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. | |
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It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' | - They hated me without a cause Jn.15.25 - Ps.35.19, Ps.69.4 |
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But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; | |
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and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning. | |
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