(APB) John 15 : 1 "I AM THE LIVING GOD, The True Vine, and my Father is the vine dresser.”
(APB) John 15 : 2 "Every branch on me not yielding fruit he takes away, and that which yields fruit he purges that it may bring forth much fruit.”
(APB) John 15 : 3 "From now on you are purged because of the word which I have spoken with you.”
(APB) John 15 : 4 "Stay with me, and I am in you. Just as the branch cannot yield fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither do you unless you stay with me.”
(APB) John 15 : 5 "I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Vine, and you are the branches; whoever abides with me and I in him, this one brings forth much fruit, because without me, you can do nothing.”
(APB) John 15 : 6 "If a man does not abide with me, he is thrown away like a shriveled up branch, and they gather it, throwing it into the fire to burn.”
(APB) John 15 : 7 "But if you are abiding in me and my words will abide in you, everything whatsoever you desire to ask, it shall be done for you.”
(APB) John 15 : 8 "In this The Father is glorified, that you will bring forth much fruit and that you will be my disciples.”
(APB) John 15 : 9 "Just as my Father has loved me, even so I have loved you; continue in my friendship.”
(APB) John 15 : 10 "If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and I abide in his love.”
(APB) John 15 : 11 "I have spoken these things with you that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be perfect.”
(APB) John 15 : 12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.”
(APB) John 15 : 13 "There is no greater love than this: that a person would lay down his life for the sake of his friends.”
(APB) John 15 : 14 "You are my friends if you will do all that I command you.”
(APB) John 15 : 15 "No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master does, but I have called you my friends, because all that I have heard from my Father, I have taught you.”
(APB) John 15 : 16 "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you so that you also will go bring forth fruit and your fruit will remain, so that all you will ask my Father in my name, he will give to you.”
(APB) John 15 : 17 "These things I command you that you will love one another.”
(APB) John 15 : 18 "And if the world hates you, know that it hated me before you.”
(APB) John 15 : 19 "And if you had been from the world, the world would have loved its own; but you are not from the world, but I have chosen you from the world; because of this the world hates you.”
(APB) John 15 : 20 "Remember the word that I have spoken to you, that there is no servant greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours.”
(APB) John 15 : 21 "They will do all these things among you because of my name, because they do not know him who has sent me.”
(APB) John 15 : 22 "If I did not come speaking with them, they would have no sin, but now there is no covering for their sin.”
(APB) John 15 : 23 "Whoever hates me hates my Father also.”
(APB) John 15 : 24 "If I had not done the works in their sight which no other man had done, they would not have sin,
(APB) John 15 : 25 That the word which is written in their law maybe fulfilled: 'They hated me for nothing.' But now they have seen and hated me and my Father also.”
(APB) John 15 : 26 "But when The Redeemer of the accursed comes, him whom I shall send to you from the presence of my Father, The Spirit of Truth, he who proceeds from the presence of my Father, he shall testify concerning me.”
(APB) John 15 : 27 "You also are testifying, who are with me from the beginning.”