The True Vine

Yeshua is the true vine, His Father the farmer; branches that abide in Him bear much fruit, branches that do not are gathered and burned.

¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.²Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.⁴Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.⁵I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.⁶If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burnt.⁷If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.⁸In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.⁹Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.¹⁰If you keep my mitzvot, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s mitzvot and remain in his love.¹¹I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.¹²This is my mitzvah, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.¹⁴You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his adonai does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.¹⁶You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.¹⁷I command these things to you, that you may love one another.