John 15:1–17

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. ¹²This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you. ¹⁵I 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. ¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and that ye should bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that ye love one another.