CHAP. XV.

1 The Consolation and mutuall loue betweene Christ and his members, vnder the parable of the vine. 18 A comfort in the hatred and persecution of the world. 26 The office of the holy Ghost, and of the Apostles.

¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is þ^e husbandman.

² Euery branch in me that beareth not fruit, hee taketh away: and euery branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring foorth more fruit.²

³ Now ye are cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you.³

⁴ Abide in me, and in you: As the branch cannot beare fruit of itselfe, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

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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 doe nothing.⁵

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⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall aske what ye will, and it shall be done vnto you.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye beare much fruit, so shall ye bee my Disciples.

⁹ As the Father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue ye in my loue.

¹⁰ If ye keepe my Commandements, ye shal abide in my loue, euen as I haue kept my Fathers Commandements, and abide in his loue.

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¹¹ These things haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full.

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¹² This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.¹²

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¹³ Greater loue hath no man then this, that a man lay downe his life for his friends.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you.

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¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not seruants, for the seruant knoweth not what his lord doth, but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, I haue made knowen vnto you.

¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that you should goe and bring foorth fruit, and that your fruite should remaine: that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you.¹⁶

¹⁷ These things I commaund you, that ye loue one another.

¹⁸ If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would loue his owne: But because yee are not of the world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therfore the world hateth you.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then the Lord: if they haue persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they haue kept my saying, they will keepe yours also.²⁰

²¹ But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they know not him that sent me.

²² If I had not come, and spoken vnto them, they had not had sinne: but now they haue no cloke for their sinne.²²

²³ He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done among thē the works which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but now haue they both seene, & hated both me & my father.

²⁵ But this commeth to passe, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.²⁵

²⁶ But when the Comforter is come, whom I wil send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth from the Father, hee shall testifie of me.²⁶

²⁷ And ye also shall beare witnesse, because ye haue bene with me from the beginning.