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| | Jhn 15:1 | "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
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| | Jhn 15:2 | He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
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| | Jhn 15:3 | You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
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| | Jhn 15:4 | Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
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| | Jhn 15:5 | "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
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| | Jhn 15:6 | If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
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| | Jhn 15:7 | If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.
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| | Jhn 15:8 | This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
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| | Jhn 15:9 | "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
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| | Jhn 15:10 | If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
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| | Jhn 15:11 | I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
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| | Jhn 15:12 | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
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| | Jhn 15:13 | Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
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| | Jhn 15:14 | You are my friends if you do what I command.
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| | Jhn 15:15 | I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
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| | Jhn 15:16 | You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
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| | Jhn 15:17 | This is my command: Love each other.
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| | Jhn 15:18 | "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
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| | Jhn 15:19 | If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
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| | Jhn 15:20 | Remember the words I spoke to you: `No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
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| | Jhn 15:21 | They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me.
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| | Jhn 15:22 | If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
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| | Jhn 15:23 | He who hates me hates my Father as well.
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| | Jhn 15:24 | If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
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| | Jhn 15:25 | But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: `They hated me without reason.'
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| | Jhn 15:26 | "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
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| | Jhn 15:27 | And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
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