1 “ I am the true Vine. My Father is the One Who cares for the Vine.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 H e takes away any branch in Me that does not give fruit. Any branch that gives fruit, He cuts it back so it will give more fruit.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.

3 Y ou are made clean by the words I have spoken to you.

Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.

4 G et your life from Me and I will live in you. No branch can give fruit by itself. It has to get life from the vine. You are able to give fruit only when you have life from Me.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

5 I am the Vine and you are the branches. Get your life from Me. Then I will live in you and you will give much fruit. You can do nothing without Me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

6 “ If anyone does not get his life from Me, he is cut off like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire and they are burned.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 I f you get your life from Me and My Words live in you, ask whatever you want. It will be done for you.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

8 “ When you give much fruit, My Father is honored. This shows you are My followers.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

9 I have loved you just as My Father has loved Me. Stay in My love.

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

10 I f you obey My teaching, you will live in My love. In this way, I have obeyed My Father’s teaching and live in His love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

11 I have told you these things so My joy may be in you and your joy may be full. The Christian with Other Christians

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

12 “ This is what I tell you to do: Love each other just as I have loved you.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

13 N o one can have greater love than to give his life for his friends.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14 Y ou are My friends if you do what I tell you.

Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

15 I do not call you servants that I own anymore. A servant does not know what his owner is doing. I call you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from My Father.

No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

16 Y ou have not chosen Me, I have chosen you. I have set you apart for the work of bringing in fruit. Your fruit should last. And whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you. The Christian and the World

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 “ This is what I tell you to do: Love each other.

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

18 I f the world hates you, you know it hated Me before it hated you.

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

19 I f you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. You do not belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world and the world hates you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

20 R emember I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his owner.’ If they made it very hard for Me, they will make it very hard for you also. If they obeyed My teachings, they will obey your teachings also.

Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

21 T hey will do all these things to you because you belong to Me. They do not know My Father Who sent Me.

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

22 “ I have come and have spoken to them so they are guilty of sin. But now they have no reason to give for keeping their sin any longer.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 W hoever hates Me, hates My Father also.

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

24 I have done things among them which no one else has done so they are guilty of sin. But now they have seen these things and have hated Me and My Father.

If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 T his happened as their Law said it would happen, ‘They hated Me without a reason.’

But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26 “ The Helper (Holy Spirit) will tell about Me when He comes. I will send Him to you from the Father. He is the Spirit of Truth and comes from the Father.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:

27 Y ou will also tell of Me because you have been with Me from the beginning.

and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.