1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.3 You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.8 Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.11 I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.15 No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.21 They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.22 If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.25 This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.

1 Ego sum vitis vera, et Pater meus agricola est. 2 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat. 3 Jam vos mundi estis propter sermonem quem locutus sum vobis. 4 Manete in me, et ego in vobis. Sicut palmes non potest fere fructum a semetipso, nisi manserit in vite, sic nec vos, nisi in me manseritis. 5 Ego sum vitis, vos palmites : qui manet in me, et ego in eo, hic fert fructum multum, quia sine me nihil potestis facere. 6 Si quis in me non manserit, mittetur foras sicut palmes, et arescet, et colligent eum, et in ignem mittent, et ardet. 7 Si manseritis in me, et verba mea in vobis manserint, quodcumque volueritis petetis, et fiet vobis. 8 In hoc clarificatus est Pater meus, ut fructum plurimum afferatis, et efficiamini mei discipuli.9 Sicut dilexit me Pater, et ego dilexi vos. Manete in dilectione mea. 10 Si prcepta mea servaveritis, manebitis in dilectione mea, sicut et ego Patris mei prcepta servavi, et maneo in ejus dilectione. 11 Hc locutus sum vobis : ut gaudium meum in vobis sit, et gaudium vestrum impleatur. 12 Hoc est prceptum meum, ut diligatis invicem, sicut dilexi vos. 13 Majorem hac dilectionem nemo habet, ut animam suam ponat qui pro amicis suis. 14 Vos amici mei estis, si feceritis qu ego prcipio vobis. 15 Jam non dicam vos servos : quia servus nescit quid faciat dominus ejus. Vos autem dixi amicos : quia omnia qucumque audivi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis. 16 Non vos me elegistis, sed ego elegi vos, et posui vos ut eatis, et fructum afferatis, et fructus vester maneat : ut quodcumque petieritis Patrem in nomine meo, det vobis. 17 Hc mando vobis : ut diligatis invicem.18 Si mundus vos odit, scitote quia me priorem vobis odio habuit. 19 Si de mundo fuissetis, mundus quod suum erat diligeret : quia vero de mundo non estis, sed ego elegi vos de mundo, propterea odit vos mundus. 20 Mementote sermonis mei, quem ego dixi vobis : non est servus major domino suo. Si me persecuti sunt, et vos persequentur ; si sermonem meum servaverunt, et vestrum servabunt. 21 Sed hc omnia facient vobis propter nomen meum : quia nesciunt eum qui misit me. 22 Si non venissem, et locutus fuissem eis, peccatum non haberent : nunc autem excusationem non habent de peccato suo. 23 Qui me odit, et Patrem meum odit. 24 Si opera non fecissem in eis qu nemo alius fecit, peccatum non haberent : nunc autem et viderunt, et oderunt et me, et Patrem meum. 25 Sed ut adimpleatur sermo, qui in lege eorum scriptus est : Quia odio habuerunt me gratis. 26 Cum autem venerit Paraclitus, quem ego mittam vobis a Patre, Spiritum veritatis, qui a Patre procedit, ille testimonium perhibebit de me ; 27 et vos testimonium perhibebitis, quia ab initio mecum estis.