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Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.

"The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.

"You heard that I said to you, 'I am going away, and I am coming to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

"I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in regard to Me,

but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let's go from here.

"Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

"Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

"I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

"If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

"If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

"Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.

"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also.

"But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

"The one who hates Me hates My Father also.

"If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

"But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: 'THEY HATED ME FOR NO REASON.'

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, He will testify about Me,

and you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me from the beginning.