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UST YHN Chapter 15

15 “I am like a genuine vine that grows fruit. My Father is like a gardener who takes care of it. 2 My Father cuts off and removes every branch that seems to be part of me but does not produce fruit. As for every branch that produces fruit, he cleans it by pruning it so that it may produce even more fruit. 3 You are like branches that have already been cleaned by pruning because of the teaching that I have told you before. 4 Stay united with me, and I will stay united with you. As the branch cannot produce any fruit unless it stays attached to the vine, so you cannot produce spiritual fruit unless you stay united with me.

5 I am like the vine; you are like the branches. If you stay united with me and I stay united with you, you will produce a lot of fruit. This is true because you cannot do anything without my help. 6 As for anyone who does not stay united with me, that person is like a branch that the gardener cuts off and throws away. After such branches dry up, the gardener’s workers pick them up and throw them into a fire and burn them up. 7 If you stay united with me and obey what I have taught you, you can request anything from God that you want, and he will grant your request. 8 You show people how great my Father is by producing a lot of fruit and being my disciples.

9 I have loved you in the same way that my Father has loved me. Now keep living in a way that is appropriate for those whom I love. 10 If you obey what I have commanded you, you will be acting in a way that is appropriate for those whom I love, just like I have obeyed what my Father has commanded me, and I act in a way that is appropriate for someone whom he loves. 11 I told you these things in order that you may be as joyful as I am and in order that you may be joyful to the greatest degree. 12 This is what I am commanding you to do: Love each other in the way that I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than a person who is willing to die for his friends. 14 You are really my friends if you keep doing what I have commanded you to do. 15 I am not going to call you my servants any longer, because a servant does not understand what his master is doing. I now call you friends, because I have made you understand everything that my Father has told me. 16 You did not choose to be my disciples. Rather, I chose you to be my disciples and assigned you to this role in order that you would go out and produce spiritual fruit and in order that the fruit you produce should last forever. I also chose you in order that my Father would give you everything that you request from him as my representatives. 17 I command you to do these things in order that you would love one another.

18 Since the people who oppose God in the world detest you, you must realize that they detested me first. 19 If you were part of the people who oppose God in the world, those unbelievers would love you as they love their own. However, I chose you to come out from among them. The people who oppose God in the world detest you because you are not part of them. 20 Remember that I told you that a servant is not more important than his master. Since they have caused me to suffer, they will certainly cause you to suffer as well. If any of them have obeyed my teaching, they will also obey what you teach. 21 Yet the unbelievers in this world will do all these hateful things to you because you represent me and because they do not know my Father who has sent me here. 22 If I had not come and taught them God’s truth, they would not have been guilty of rejecting me and my message. However, since I have come and taught them, now they do not have any excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever detests me also detests my Father. 24 If I had not performed miraculous works among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. Yet, as it is, they have seen these works and detest me. They also detest my Father. 25 However, this has happened in order that these words that a prophet wrote in their scriptures would come true: ‘They hated me for no reason.’

26 When I send to you from my Father the one who will help you, he will tell people who I am. He is the Holy Spirit, who declares what is true about God and goes forth from my Father. 27 You also must tell everyone about me, because you have been with me since the very first days when I began my work.”

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