¹I am the true vine, and my father is the cultivator. ²As for every branch in me which does not bear fruit, he removes it. But as for every one which bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it bears more fruit. ³You are already clean, because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴Remain in me, and I will in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, if it does not remain in the vine, so neither can you, if you do not remain in me. ⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, because without me you cannot do anything. ⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and he withers, and people gather them and put them on the fire, and they are burnt. ⁷If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will take place for you. ⁸This is what my father is glorified by: by you bearing much fruit and so becoming disciples to me. ⁹As my father loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love. ¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have kept the commandments of my father and remain in his love. ¹¹I have said these things to you in order that my joy may remain in you, and your joy may be fulfilled. ¹²This is my commandment, that you love each other as I have loved you. ¹³No-one has love greater than this: that someone should lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because I have informed you of everything that I have heard from my father. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, and for your fruit to remain, so that whatever you ask the father for in my name, he should give you. ¹⁷I charge you with this: that you love each other. ¹⁸If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you. ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, since you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world – that is why the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the words which I spoke to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they kept my word, they will keep yours as well. ²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³He who hates me also hates my father. ²⁴If I had not done the works among them which no-one else has done, they would have no sin. But as it is they have seen and hated both me and my father. ²⁵But this is so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me gratuitously.’ ²⁶But when the comforter comes, whom I will send you from the father – the spirit of truth which proceeds from the father – he will testify about me. ²⁷But you testify too, because you have been with me from the start.

Reference(s) in Chapter 15: v.25 ↔ Psalm 35:19, Psalm 69:5^MT (Psalm 69:4^AV).