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I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.
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Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
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Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.
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I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
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If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.
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If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you.
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In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.
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As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.
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If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.
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These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.
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This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.
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Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.
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I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends, because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.
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You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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These things I command you, that you love one another.
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If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.
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If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
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But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
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If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.
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But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.
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And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
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