1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the one who tends it.
2 Every branch in me that bears no fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it will bear still more fruit.
3 You are clean already because of the word I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in 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, is the one who bears much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you want, and it will happen for you.
8 My Father is glorified in this: that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9 Just as the Father has loved me, so have I loved 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 these things so that my joy may remain in you and your joy may be complete.
12 This is my commandment: love one another just as I have loved 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 servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.
16 It was not you who chose me; I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
17 This is what I command you: love one another.
18 If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me before you.
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. But because you do not belong to the world, and I chose you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
20 Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours as well.
21 But they will do all these things to you because of my name, since they do not know the one who sent me.
22 Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
24 Had I not done among them works that no one else has done, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and have hated both me and my Father.
25 Yet this has happened so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: 'They hated me for no reason.'
26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
27 And you too will testify, since you have been with me from the start.