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Jesus
Is the Vine--Followers Are Branches |
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John 15:1
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"I am the true vine, and
My Father is the vinedresser. |
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John 15:2
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Every branch in Me that
does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes
it so that it may bear more fruit. |
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John 15:3
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You are already clean
because of the word which I have spoken to you. |
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John 15:4
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Abide in Me, and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so
neither can you unless you abide in Me. |
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John 15:5
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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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John 15:6
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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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John 15:7
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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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John 15:8
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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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John 15:9
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Just as the Father has
loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. |
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John 15:10
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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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John 15:11
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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 made full. |
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Disciples'
Relation to Each Other |
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John 15:12
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"This is My commandment,
that you love one another, just as I have loved you. |
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John 15:13
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Greater love has no one
than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. |
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John 15:14
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You are My friends if
you do what I command you. |
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John 15:15
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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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John 15:16
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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 remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He
may give to you. |
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John 15:17
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This I command you, that
you love one another. |
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Disciples'
Relation to the World |
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John 15:18
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"If the world hates you,
you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. |
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John 15:19
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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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John 15:20
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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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John 15:21
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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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John 15:22
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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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John 15:23
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He who hates Me hates
My Father also. |
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John 15:24
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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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John 15:25
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But they have done this
to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.' |
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John 15:26
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"When the Helper comes,
whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds
from the Father, He will testify about Me, |
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John 15:27
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and you will testify also,
because you have been with Me from the beginning. |
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