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- "I am the true vine, and
my Father is the gardener.
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- He cuts off every branch in me
that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so
that it will be even more fruitful.
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- You are already clean because
of the word I have spoken to you.
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- Remain in me, and I will
remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the
vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
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- "I am the vine; you are
the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit;
apart from me you can do nothing.
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- If anyone does not remain in
me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are
picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
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- If you remain in me and my
words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
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- This is to my Father's glory,
that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
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- "As the Father has loved
me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
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- If you obey my commands, you
will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and
remain in his love.
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- I have told you this so that
my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
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- My command is this: Love each
other as I have loved you.
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- Greater love has no one than
this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
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- You are my friends if you do
what I command.
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- I no longer call you servants,
because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have
called you friends, for everything that I learned 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 to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then
the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
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- This is my command: Love each
other.
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- "If the world hates you,
keep in mind that it hated me first.
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- If you belonged to the world,
it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but
I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
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- Remember the words I spoke to
you: `No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they
will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours
also.
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- They will treat you this way
because of my name, for 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. Now, however, they have no excuse
for their sin.
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- He who hates me hates my
Father as well.
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- If I had not done among them
what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have
seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
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- But this is to fulfil what is
written in their Law: `They hated me without reason.'
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- "When the Counsellor
comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes
out from the Father, he will testify about me.
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- And you also must testify, for
you have been with me from the beginning.
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