1 "I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.

2 "He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

3 "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

4 "Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more 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, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

6 "If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

7 "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

8 "By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.