1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2  As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit. 3  Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. 4  Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me. 5  I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. 6  Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you. 8  In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

9  As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. 10  If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11  I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full. 12  This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13  No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. 14  Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you. 15  I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.