015:006 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned. 015:007 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you. 015:008 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine. 015:009 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love. 015:010 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love. 015:011 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect. 015:012 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you. 015:013 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends. 015:014 You are my friends, if you do what I command you. 015:015 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. 015:016 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you. 015:017 "Thus I command you to love one another. 015:018 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred. 015:019 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you. 015:020 Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 015:021 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me. 015:022 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin. 015:023 He who hates me hates my Father also. 015:024 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father. 015:025 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me without any reason.'