Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John by R F Weymouth
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am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.
014:029 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe. 014:030 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing; 014:031 but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going." 015:001 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser. 015:002 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 015:003 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you. 015:004 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me. 015:005 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 015:006 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned. 015:007 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you. 015:008 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine. 015:009 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love. |
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