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| Chapter 15
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1 | I am the true
vine, and my Father is the husbandman. |
2 | Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he 1taketh
away: and every branch that 2beareth fruit, he
purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
1
Matt 15:13,
1st Cor 3:11
2
Matt 25:29,
1st Cor 15:10,
2nd Cor 6:1
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3 | Now ye are clean
through the word which I have spoken unto you. |
4 |
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide
in me. |
5 |
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. |
6 |
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and 1cast them into the fire,
and they are burned.
1
Matt 3:10,
Matt 7:19,
Luke 3:9,
Luke 13:7,
Luke 13:9
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7 |
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall 1ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
1
Matt 7:7,
Matt 21:22,
Mark 11:24,
Luke 11:9,10,
Luke 18:1,
John 14:13,
John 16:23,
1st John 3:22
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8
| Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so
shall ye be my disciples. |
9 | As the Father hath
loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. |
10
| If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. |
11 | These things
have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that
your joy might be full. |
12 |
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. |
13
| Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends. |
14 |
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Matt 12:50,
John 14:23,
Heb 2:11
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15 | Henceforth I
call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord
doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have
heard of my Father I have made known unto you. |
16 |
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye
should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that
whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. |
17
| These things I command you, that ye love one another. |
18 | If the world
hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. |
19
| If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. |
20 |
Remember the word that I said unto you, The
1servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted
me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they
will keep yours also.
1
Matt 10:24,
Luke 6:40,
John 13:16
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21
| But all these things will they do unto you for my name's
sake, because they know not him that sent me. |
22 | If I had not
come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have
no cloak for their sin. |
23 | He that hateth
me hateth my Father also. |
24 | If I had not
done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had
sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. |
25 | But this cometh
to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their
law,
They hated me without a cause.
Ps 35:19,
69:4
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26
| But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father, he shall testify of me: |
27 | And ye also
shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. |