1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, and they burn. 7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified: that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9 Just as the Father has loved me, I have loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

12 This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and for your fruit to abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. 17 These things I command you, so that you may love one another.

18 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, and I chose you out of the world, the world hates you. 20 Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they kept my word, they will keep yours too. 21 But they will do all these things to you because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father too. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is so that the word written in their law may be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without cause.’

26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you too bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”