John 15:1–11

¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ²As 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. ³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide 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. ⁵I 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. ⁶Unless 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. ⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you. ⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

⁹As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love. ¹⁰If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.