| 1. | "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. |
| 2. | He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. |
| 3. | You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. |
| 4. | Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. |
| 5. | I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. |
| 6. | Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. |
| 7. | If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. |
| 8. | By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. |
| 9. | As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. |
| 10. | If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. |
| 11. | "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. |
| 12. | This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. |
| 13. | No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
| 14. | You are my friends if you do what I command you. |
| 15. | I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. |
| 16. | It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. |
| 17. | This I command you: love one another. |
| 18. | "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. |
| 19. | If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. |
| 20. | Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. |
| 21. | And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. |
| 22. | If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. |
| 23. | Whoever hates me also hates my Father. |
| 24. | If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father. |
| 25. | But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, 'They hated me without cause.' |
| 26. | "When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. |
| 27. | And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. |
