"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. "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. "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. "This I command you, that you love one another. "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. "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. "You are My friends if you do what I command you. "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. "These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. "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. "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you abide in My love. "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. "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. "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. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. "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. "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
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