Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 "I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
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.
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Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.
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You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to 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.
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Remain 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.
5 "I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.
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I am 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.
6 Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned.
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If a man doesn't 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.
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.
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If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done to you.
8 My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit; and in this way you become my disciples.
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"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9 I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.
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Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. 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.
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If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, 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.
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I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.
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"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.
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Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 And you are my friends if you do what I command you.
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You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
15 I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.
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No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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.
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You 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 the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
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"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 "If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.
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If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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.
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember what I told you: "Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
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Remember 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.
21 But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.
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But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him 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.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
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He who 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.
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If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated 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.'
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But that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
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.
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"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
27 And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.
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You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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