Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jesus the Real Vine
1 “I am the real vine, and my
Father is the gardener.
2 He
breaks off every branch in me that
does not bear fruit, and he prunes
every branch that does bear fruit, so
that it will be clean and bear more
fruit.
3 You have been made clean already
by the teaching I have given
you.
4 Remain united to me, and I
will remain united to you. A branch
cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do
so only if it remains in the vine. In
the same way you cannot bear fruit
unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine, and you are the
branches. Whoever remains in me,
and I in him, will bear much fruit;
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for you can do nothing without me.
6 Whoever does not remain in me is
thrown out like a branch and dries
up; such branches are gathered up
and thrown into the fire, where they
are burned.
7 If you remain in me
and my words remain in you, then
you will ask for anything you wish,
and you shall have it.
8 My Father's
glory is shown by your bearing
much fruit; and in this way you become
my disciples.
9 I love you just
as the Father loves me; remain in my
love.
10 If you obey my commands,
you will remain in my love, just as I
have obeyed my Father's commands
and remain in his love.
11 “I have told you this so that my
joy may be in you and that your joy
may be complete.
12 My commandment
is this: love one another, just
as I love you. note
13 The greatest love a
person can have for his friends is to
give his life for them.
14 And you are
my friends if you do what I command
you.
15 I do not call you servants
any longer, because a servant
does not know what his master is
doing. Instead, I call you friends, because
I have told you everything I
heard from my Father.
16 You did not
choose me; I chose you and appointed
you to go and bear much
fruit, the kind of fruit that endures.
And so the Father will give you
whatever you ask of him in my
name.
17 This, then, is what I command
you: love one another.
The World's Hatred
18 “If the world hates you, just remember
that it has hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, then
the world would love you as its own.
But I chose you from this world, and
you do not belong to it; that is why
the world hates you.
20 Remember
what I told you: ‘No slave is greater
than his master.’ If they persecuted
me, they will persecute you too; if
they obeyed my teaching, they will
obey yours too. note
21 But they will do all
this to you because you are mine; for
they do not know the one who sent
me.
22 They would not have been
guilty of sin if I had not come and
spoken to them; as it is, they no
longer have any excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father
also.
24 They would not have
been guilty of sin if I had not done
among them the things that no one
else ever did; as it is, they have seen
what I did, and they hate both me
and my Father.
25 This, however, was
bound to happen so that what is
written in their Law may come true:
‘They hated me for no reason at all.’ note
26 “The Helper will come—the
Spirit, who reveals the truth about
God and who comes from the Father.
I will send him to you from the
Father, and he will speak about me.
27 And you, too, will speak about me,
because you have been with me
from the very beginning.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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