## I Am the True Vine 

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"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine-grower. 

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Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every _branch_ that bears fruit, He cleans it so that it may bear more fruit. 

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You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 

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Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither _can_ you unless you abide in Me. 

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I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 

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If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. 

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If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 

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My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and _so_ prove to be My disciples. 

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Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 

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If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 

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These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and _that_ your joy may be complete. 

## Jesus' Commandment Is Love 

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"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 

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Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 

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You are My friends if you do what I command you. 

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No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 

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You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and _that_ your fruit would abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 

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This I command you, that you love one another. 

## If the World Hates You 

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"If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before _it hated_ you. 

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If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 

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Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 

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But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. 

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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 

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He who hates Me hates My Father also. 

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If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. 

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But _this happened_ to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'They hated Me without cause.' 

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"When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me, 

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and you _will_ bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.