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CHAP.XV.

1 Under the parable of a vine Christ setteth forth God's government of his church, and exhorteth his disciples to abide in his faith and doctrine: 12 he commandeth them to love one another, according to the great love he had shewed for them: 18 forewarneth them of the hatred and persecution of the world: 26 and telleth them of the testimony which the Holy Ghost, and they also, should bear to him.

I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

^{2 [1]} Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

^{3 [2]} Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

^{4 [3]} Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much ^[4] fruit: for ‖‖ Or, severed from me.
Acts 4. 12. without me ye can do nothing.

⁶ If a man abide not in me, ^[5] 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, ^[6] ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

^{8 [7]} Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; ^[8] so shall ye be my disciples.

⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

^{10 [9]} If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and ^[10] that your joy might be full.

¹² ¶ ^[11] This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

^{13 [12]} Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

^{14 [13]} Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; ^[14] for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

^{16 [15]} Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ^[16] ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that ^[17] whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

^{17 [18]} These things I command you, that ye love one another.

^{18 [19]} If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

^{19 [20]} If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but ^[21] because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said unto you, ^[22] The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; ^[23] if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also.

²¹ But ^[24] all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

^{22 [25]} If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: ^[26] but now they have no ‖‖ Or, excuse. cloke for their sin.

^{23 [27]} He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done among them ^[28] the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁵ But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ^[29] They hated me without a cause.

²⁶ ¶ ^[30] But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, ^[31] he shall testify of me:

²⁷ And ^[32] ye also shall bear witness, because ^[33] ye have been with me from the beginning.

CHAP.XVI.

1 Christ warneth his disciples of their sufferings for his sake: 5 he comforteth them by a promise of the Holy Ghost: 16 he intimateth his death, resurrection, and ascension, telling them that their sorrow should soon be succeeded by joy, and that their prayers in his name would be accepted of the Father: 29 his disciples confess their faith in him; he foretelleth their desertion of him, and promiseth them peace in him amidst their tribulation in the world.

THESE things have I spoken unto you, that ye ^[34] should not be offended.

^{2 [35]} They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, ^[36] that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

³ And ^[37] these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

⁴ But ^[38] these things have I told you, that

1. a Matth. 15. 13.
2. b ch. 13. 10. & 17. 17.
   Eph. 5. 26.
   1 Pet. 1. 22.
3. c Col. 1. 23.
   John 2. 6.
4. d Hos. 14. 8.
   Phil. 1. 11. & 4. 13.
5. e Matth. 3. 10. & 7. 19.
6. f ver. 16.
   ch. 14. 13, 14. & 16. 23.
7. g Matth. 5. 16.
   Phil. 1. 11.
8. h ch. 8. 31. & 13. 35.
9. i ch. 14. 15, 21, 23.
10. k ch. 16. 24. & 17. 13.
    John 1. 4.
11. l ch. 13. 34.
    1 Thess. 4. 9.
    1 Pet. 4. 8.
    1 John 3. 11. & 4. 21.
12. m ch. 10. 11, 15.
    Rom. 5. 7, 8.
    Eph. 5. 2.
    John 3. 16.
13. n ch. 14. 15, 23.
    See Matth. 12. 50.
14. o See Gen. 18. 17.
    ch. 17. 26.
    Acts 20. 27.
15. p ch. 6. 70. & 13. 18.
    1 John 4. 10, 19.
16. q Matth. 28. 19.
    Mark 16. 15.
    Col. 1. 6.
17. r ver. 7.
    ch. 14. 13.
18. s ver. 12.
19. t 1 John 3. 1, 13.
20. u 1 John 4. 5.
21. x ch. 17. 14.
22. y Matth. 10. 24.
    Luke 6. 40.
    ch. 13. 16.
23. z Ezek. 3. 7.
24. a Matth. 10. 22. & 24. 9.
    ch. 16. 3.
25. b ch. 9. 41.
26. c Rom. 1. 20.
    James 4. 17.
27. d 1 John 2. 23.
28. e ch. 3. 2. & 7. 31. & 9. 32.
29. f Ps. 35. 19. & 69. 4.
30. g Luke 24. 49.
    ch. 14. 17, 26. & 16. 7, 13.
    Acts 2. 33.
31. h 1 John 5. 6.
32. i Luke 24. 48.
    Acts 1. 8, 21, 22. & 2. 32. & 3. 15. & 4. 20, 33. & 5. 32. & 10. 39. & 13. 31.
    1 Pet. 5. 1.
    l 2 Pet. 1. 16.
33. k Luke 1. 2.
    John 1. 1, 2.
34. a Matth. 11. 6. & 24. 10. & 20. 31.
35. b ch. 9. 22, 34. & 12. 42.
36. c Acts 8. 1. & 9. 1. & 26. 9, 10, 11.
37. d ch. 15. 21.
    Rom. 10. 2.
    1 Cor. 2. 8.
    1 Tim. 1. 13.
38. e ch. 13. 19. & 14. 29.