You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. | You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. |
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. | I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. |
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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 for you. | If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. |
In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. | This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. |
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. | If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. |
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. | I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. |
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. |
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
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. | You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. |
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. | If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. |
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. | When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. |