1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.2 {As to} every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and {as to} every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.3 Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.4 Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither {can} ye unless ye abide in me.5 I am the vine, ye {are} the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.6 Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.8 In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.9 As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.10 If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.11 I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.13 No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.14 Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.15 I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and {that} ye should bear fruit, and {that} your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.18 If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.20 Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.23 He that hates me hates also my Father.24 If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.25 But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, *he* shall bear witness concerning me;27 and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from {the} beginning.

1 Ek is die ware wynstok, en my Vader is die landbouer.2 Elke loot wat in My nie vrug dra nie, neem Hy weg; en elke loot wat vrug dra, die maak Hy skoon, sodat dit meer vrug kan dra.3 Julle is alreeds rein deur die woord wat Ek tot julle gespreek het.4 Bly in My, soos Ek in julle. Net soos die loot geen vrug kan dra van homself as dit nie in die wynstok bly nie, so julle ook nie as julle in My nie bly nie.5 Ek is die wynstok, julle die lote. Wie in My bly, en Ek in hom, hy dra veel vrug; want sonder My kan julle niks doen nie.6 As iemand in My nie bly nie, word hy uitgewerp soos die loot en verdroog, en hulle maak dit bymekaar en gooi dit in die vuur, en dit verbrand.7 As julle in My bly en my woorde in julle, sal julle vra net wat julle wil hê, en julle sal dit verkry.8 Hierin is my Vader verheerlik, dat julle veel vrug dra; en julle sal my dissipels wees.9 Soos die Vader My liefgehad het, het Ek julle ook liefgehad. Bly in hierdie liefde van My.10 As julle my gebooie bewaar, sal julle in my liefde bly, net soos Ek die gebooie van my Vader bewaar en in sy liefde bly.11 Dit het Ek vir julle gesê, dat my blydskap in julle kan bly en julle blydskap volkome kan word.12 Dit is my gebod, dat julle mekaar moet liefhê net soos Ek julle liefgehad het.13 Groter liefde het niemand as dit nie, dat iemand sy lewe vir sy vriende gee.14 Julle is my vriende as julle alles doen wat Ek julle beveel.15 Ek noem julle nie meer diensknegte nie, omdat die dienskneg nie weet wat sy heer doen nie. Maar Ek het julle vriende genoem, omdat Ek alles wat Ek van my Vader gehoor het, aan julle bekend gemaak het.16 Julle het My nie uitverkies nie, maar Ek het julle uitverkies en julle aangestel om vrug te gaan dra en dat julle vrug kan bly, sodat wat julle die Vader ook al in my Naam vra, Hy julle dit kan gee.17 Dit gebied Ek julle, dat julle mekaar moet liefhê.18 As die wêreld julle haat, moet julle weet dat hy My voor julle gehaat het.19 As julle van die wêreld was, sou die wêreld sy eiendom liefhê. Maar omdat julle nie van die wêreld is nie, maar Ek julle uit die wêreld uitverkies het, daarom haat die wêreld julle.20 Onthou die woord wat Ek vir julle gesê het: 'n Dienskneg is nie groter as sy heer nie. As hulle My vervolg het, sal hulle jul ook vervolg. As hulle my woord bewaar het, sal hulle jul woord ook bewaar.21 Maar al hierdie dinge sal hulle aan julle doen ter wille van my Naam, omdat hulle Hom nie ken wat My gestuur het nie.22 As Ek nie gekom en met hulle gespreek het nie, sou hulle geen sonde hê nie; maar nou het hulle geen verskoning vir hul sonde nie.23 Wie my haat, haat ook my Vader.24 As Ek nie die werke onder hulle gedoen het wat niemand anders gedoen het nie, sou hulle geen sonde hê nie. Maar nou het hulle dit gesien, en tog het hulle My sowel as my Vader gehaat.25 Maar die woord wat in hulle wet geskrywe is, moet vervul word: Hulle het My sonder oorsaak gehaat.26 Maar as die Trooster gekom het wat Ek vir julle van die Vader sal stuur, die Gees van die waarheid wat van die Vader uitgaan, sal Hy van My getuig.27 En julle getuig ook, omdat julle van die begin af met My is.