1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch 2 in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every _branch_ that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear 3 more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have 4 spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can 5 ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for 6 apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and 7 cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be 8 done unto you. Herein [1]is my Father glorified, [2]that ye bear 9 much fruit; and _so_ shall ye be my disciples. Even as the Father 10 hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have 11 kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and _that_ your 12 joy may be fulfilled. This is my commandment, that ye love one 13 another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than 14 this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my 15 friends, if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call you [3]servants; for the [4]servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard 16 from my Father I have made known unto you. 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 17 shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These 18 things I command you, that ye may love one another. If the world hateth you, [5]ye know that it hath hated me before _it hated_ 19 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, 20 therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, A [4]servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they keep my word, they will 21 keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my 22 name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have 23 no excuse for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 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 25 my Father. But _this cometh to pass_, that the word may be