1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. 2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.[ † ]Matthew 15:13Matthew 13:12 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.[ † ]John 13:10John 17:17Ephesians 5:26 4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.[ † ]John 17:23Ephesians 3:17Colossians 1:23
5I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.[ † ]Hosea 14:8Galatians 5:22-232 Corinthians 3:5 6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.[ † ]Matthew 3:10 7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.[ † ]1 John 2:14John 14:13John 16:23 8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.[ † ]Psalms 22:23Matthew 5:16John 13:31John 17:4Philippians 1:111 Peter 4:11John 8:31
9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.[ † ]John 5:20John 17:26 10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.[ † ]John 14:15 11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.[ † ]John 16:241 John 1:4
12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.[ † ]John 13:341 John 3:11Romans 12:9 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.[ † ]Ephesians 5:21 John 3:16
14You are My friends if you do what I command you.[ † ]Matthew 12:50Matthew 28:20John 14:15-21Acts 10:421 John 3:23-24 15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.[ † ]Genesis 18:17 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.[ † ]John 6:70John 13:18John 15:191 John 4:10Matthew 28:19Mark 16:15Colossians 1:6John 14:13John 16:23-24 17This is My command to you: Love one another.
18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.[ † ]John 7:71 John 3:13 19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.[ † ]1 John 4:5John 17:14
20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.[ † ]Matthew 10:24John 13:16Ezekiel 3:7 21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.[ † ]Matthew 10:22Matthew 24:91 Peter 4:14Revelation 2:3 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.[ † ]John 9:41John 15:24Romans 1:20James 4:17
23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.[ † ]1 John 2:23 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.[ † ]John 3:2John 14:9 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’[ † ]Psalms 35:19Psalms 69:4Psalms 109:3-5
26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.[ † ]Luke 24:49John 14:17Acts 2:4-331 John 5:6 27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.[ † ]Luke 24:481 Peter 5:12 Peter 1:16Matthew 3:14Luke 1:21 John 1:1