1I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.
3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4Stay in me, and I will stay in you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it must stay in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you stay in me.
5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever stays in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me you can do nothing.
6If anyone does not stay in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
7If you stay in me, and my words stay in you, you may ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
8My Father is glorified in this: that you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples.
9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love.
10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
11I have told you these things so that my joy may stay in you, and that your joy may be full.
12This is my commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you.
13No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15From now on I do not call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
16You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Then whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you.
17I command you these things, so that you love one another.
18If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
19If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. But you do not belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world, and that is why the world hates you.
20Remember the word I said to you: "A servant is not greater than his master." If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours too.
21But they will do all these things to you because of my name, since they do not know the one who sent me.
22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and they have hated both me and my Father.
25But this happened so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: "They hated me without a cause."
26But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who comes from the Father, he will testify about me.
27And you also will be my witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.