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 vinedresser.

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 does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

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

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to 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 unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you 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, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you 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 anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; 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 you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

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

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide 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 you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just 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 I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

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

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

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

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

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

You are My friends if you do what 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 slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to 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

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

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

This I command you, that you love one another. Disciples’ Relation to the World

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

“ If the world hates you, you know that it has 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 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, because of this the world hates 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 to you, ‘ A slave is not greater than his master.’ 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 they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who 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 to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 W hoever hates Me, hates My Father also.

He who hates Me hates 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 no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

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

But they have done this to fulfill the word 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.

“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

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

and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.