^4 (A)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he ^(B)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ^(C)thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ^(D)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ My ^(E)Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^[a](F)prove to be My disciples. ⁹ Just as ^(G)the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (H)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as ^(I)I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ^11 (J)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(K)joy may be complete.

Jesus’ Commandment Is Love

¹² “This is ^(L)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ^13 (M)Greater love has no one than this, that one ^(N)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My ^(O)friends if ^(P)you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(Q)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (R)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(S)bear fruit, and that your fruit would abide, so that ^(T)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷ This ^(U)I command you, that you love one another.

If the World Hates You

¹⁸ “^(V)If the world hates you, ^[b]know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(W)I chose you out of the world, ^(X)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(Y)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(Z)they will also persecute you; if they ^(AA)kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you ^(AB)for My name’s sake, ^(AC)because they do not know the One who sent Me. ^22 (AD)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[c]sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ^24 (AE)If I had not done among them ^(AF)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[d]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵ But this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their ^(AG)Law, ‘^(AH)They hated Me without cause.’

²⁶ “When the ^[e](AI)Advocate comes, ^(AJ)whom I will send to you from the Father, ^(AK)the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(AL)He will bear witness about Me, ^27 [f]and ^(AM)you will bear witness also, because you have been with Me ^(AN)from the beginning.

^23 (A)I in them and You in Me, that they may be ^[a]perfected ^[b]in unity, so that the world may ^[c]know that ^(B)You sent Me, and ^(C)loved them, even as You have loved Me.

²⁴ As for you, let that which you heard ^(A)from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also ^(B)will abide in the Son and in the Father.

²⁴ And the one who ^(A)keeps His commandments ^(B)abides in Him, and He in him. ^(C)We know by this that ^(D)He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us.

^15 (A)Whoever confesses that ^(B)Jesus is the Son of God, God ^(C)abides in him, and he in God. ^16 (D)And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has ^(E)in us. ^(F)God is love, and the one who ^(G)abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. ¹⁷ By this, ^(H)love has been perfected with us, so that we may have ^(I)confidence in ^(J)the day of judgment, because ^(K)as He is, so also are we in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but ^(L)perfect love casts out fear, because fear ^[a]involves punishment, and the one who fears is not ^(M)perfected in love. ^19 (N)We love, because He first loved us. ^20 (O)If someone says, “I love God,” and ^(P)hates his brother, he is a ^(Q)liar; for ^(R)the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ^(S)cannot love God whom he has not seen. ²¹ And ^(T)this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God ^(U)should love his brother also.