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¹“Ena Na I AM (the Living God) the true vine, and 'Avi ·my Father· is the farmer.

²Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

⁴Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

⁵Ena Na I AM (the Living God) the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

⁶If a man does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

⁸“In this is 'Avi ·my Father· glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

⁹Even as haAbba ·the Father· has agapao ·totally devoted love· for me, I also have shown agapao ·totally devoted love· for you. Remain in my agape ·unconditional love·.

¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my agape ·unconditional love·; even as I have kept 'Avi ·my Father·’s commandments, and remain in his agape ·unconditional love·.

¹¹I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹²“This is my commandment, that you have agapao ·total devotion love· to one another, even as I have shown agapao ·total devotion love· to you.

¹³Greater agape ·unconditional love· has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are my friends, if you do whatever I enjoin you.

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from 'Avi ·my Father·, I have made known to you.

¹⁶You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of haAbba ·the Father· in my name, he may give it to you.

¹⁷“I enjoin these things to you, that you may have agapao ·totally devoted love· to one another.

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would phileo ·affectionately love, have high regard for· its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

²¹But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³He who hates me, hates 'Avi ·my Father· also.

²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and 'Avi ·my Father·.

²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their Torah ·Teaching, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’

²⁶“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from haAbba ·the Father·, haRuach the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from haAbba ·the Father·, he will testify about me.

²⁷You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.