Chapter 15                         

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15:1 I am the true grapevine, and My Father is the farmer. • 2 Every branch inside of Me that does not bear fruit He removes; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, so that it might bear more fruit. • 3 You are already made pure and justly innocent through the word that I have spoken to you. • 4 Dwell inside of Me, and I inside of you [k]. Just as the branch is not capable of bearing fruit of itself, except it be attached to the vine, neither can you [l], if you do not dwell inside of Me. • 5 I am the grapevine; you are the branches. The one who dwells inside of Me and I inside of Him bears much fruit; • for apart from Me, you are not capable of doing anything. 6 If anyone does not dwell inside of Me, he is dropped as a branch, and is dried up, and they gather the branches and cast them into the fire to be burned. • 7 If you dwell inside of Me, and My words live and dwell inside of you, then ask whatever you desire, and it will become for you. • 8 In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit, and so you will be My disciples. • 9 Just as the Father has loved Me, so I also have loved you; dwell inside of My love. 10 If you keep My word to full completion, you will dwell inside of My love, just as I have kept My Father’s word to full completion and dwell inside of His love. • 11 I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might be inside of you, and that your joy might be filled full and complete. • 12 This is My full completion, that you love one another in full reciprocity just exactly as I have loved you. • 13 No one has greater love than this, that he should set forth his soul for the sake of his friends. 14 You are My friends, if you do what I speak into you {m}. • 15 I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. But you I have called beloved friends, • for all that I have heard in the presence of My Father, I have made known to you. • 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you for Myself, and I set you forth and established you, that you should be led forward, that you should bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you might ask the Father inside of My name, He would give it to you. 17 These things I speak into you that you might love one another in full reciprocity. 18 If the world-cosmos hates and denounces you, you know that it has hated and denounced Me before you. • 19 If you were out of the world-cosmos, the world-cosmos would cherish you as its own, but the world hates you because you are not out of the world, but I chose you for Myself out of the world. • 20 Remember the word I spoke to you, that a servant is not greater than his master. If they hunted Me down, they will also hunt you down; if they have kept My word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do against you on account of My name, because they have not known the One who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have held onto sin and disconnection from God, now, however, they do not have an excuse for their disconnection. • 23 The one who hates Me also hates My Father. 24 If I had not done works among them that no other has done, they would not have held onto sin and disconnection from God. Now, however, they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father, 25 so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, • ‘They hated Me freely and without purpose.’ – ‘They hated Me without a cause,” for no reason whatsoever. • 26 But when the Helper-Advocate comes, whom I will send you inside the presence of the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes forth and is spread abroad in the presence of the Father, He will bear witness concerning Me. 27 You also bear witness, because you are with Me from the beginning and origin.

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