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“I am the true vine, and my Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
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Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, He removes. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
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You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you.
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Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither are you unless you remain in me.
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I am the vine. You are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him— this one bears much fruit. For apart from me, you are able to do nothing.
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If anyone does not remain in me, he is cast outside like a branch and withers. And they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you.
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In this my Father is glorified: that you bear much fruit and become my talmidim.
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Just as the Father loved me, I also loved you. Remain in my love.
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If you guard my commandments, you shall remain in my love, just as I have guarded the commandments of my Father and remain in His love.
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These things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.
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This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I loved you.
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No one has greater love than this— that an ish 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 no longer call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I heard from my Father I made known to you.
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my Name, He may give to you.
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These things I command you: that you love one another.
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If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you.
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If you were from the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not from the world, rather I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
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Remember the Word which I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they shall also persecute you. If they guarded my Word, they shall also guard yours.
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But all these things they shall do to you because of my Name, 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 have sin in the same measure. But now they have no excuse concerning their sin.
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The one 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 in the same measure. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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But this happened so that the Word written in their Torah might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without cause.’
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But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father— the Ruach of Truth, who proceeds from the Father— that one shall testify concerning me.
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And you also shall testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.”