These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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John 15
Brit Hadashah 27 verses
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“I am the Vine—the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.
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Jeremiah 2:21 Isaiah 27:2-3 John 1:17 Isaiah 5:1-7 Psalm 80:8-19 1 Corinthians 3:9 John 6:55 Isaiah 4:2 Luke 13:6 Matthew 21:33 John 6:32 Matthew 20:1 John 1:9 Mark 12:1 1 John 2:8 Isaiah 60:21 Genesis 49:10-11 Song of Solomon 8:11-12 Zechariah 3:8 Hosea 10:1 Ezekiel 15:2-6 Song of Solomon 7:12 Isaiah 61:3 Jeremiah 12:10 -
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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.
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Matthew 3:10 Matthew 15:13 Hebrews 12:10-11 Revelation 3:19 Job 17:9 Matthew 3:12 Hebrews 6:7-8 Malachi 3:3 Matthew 13:12 Philippians 1:9-11 Romans 8:28 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 Psalm 51:7-13 Luke 13:7-9 Proverbs 4:18 Luke 8:13 John 15:8 Galatians 5:22-23 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 1 John 2:19 Colossians 1:5-10 Hebrews 12:15 Matthew 21:19 Hosea 6:3 Isaiah 29:19 1 Corinthians 13:1 John 15:16 Romans 5:3-5 Titus 2:14 John 17:12 Matthew 13:33 -
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Already you are cleansed—through the teaching which I have given you.
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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.
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Galatians 2:20 1 John 2:6 2 John 1:9 John 6:56 Ezekiel 15:2-5 1 John 2:24-28 John 8:31 Philippians 1:11 John 15:5-7 John 14:20 Romans 8:9-10 Jude 1:20-21 Luke 8:15 John 17:23 Colossians 2:6 2 Corinthians 12:8-10 Hosea 14:8 Colossians 1:23 2 Corinthians 13:5 Ephesians 3:17 John 6:68-69 1 Thessalonians 3:5 Acts 14:22 Acts 11:23 Colossians 1:27 Hebrews 10:39 Isaiah 27:10-11 Song of Solomon 8:5 -
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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.
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Philippians 4:13 Colossians 1:10 2 Peter 1:2-18 James 1:17 Proverbs 11:30 John 15:16 Galatians 5:22 2 Peter 3:18 Philippians 1:11 Philippians 4:17 Acts 4:12 Romans 7:4 John 5:19 John 9:33 2 Corinthians 13:8 Luke 13:6-9 2 Corinthians 9:10 Romans 6:22 1 Peter 2:4 Colossians 1:6 1 Corinthians 10:16 1 Corinthians 12:12 John 12:24 Ephesians 5:9 1 Corinthians 12:27 Hosea 4:8 Romans 12:5 - 6 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.
- 7 “If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.
- 8 By this is glorified—by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.
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As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my .
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- 10 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my , as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and continue in His .
- 11 “These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become .
- 12 This is my to you, to one another as I have loved you.
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No one has greater than this—a man laying down his life for his friends.
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- 14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
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No longer do I call you servants, because a does not what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.
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Psalm 25:14 Genesis 18:17-19 Matthew 13:11 1 Corinthians 2:9-12 Colossians 1:26 John 20:17 Philemon 1:16 James 2:23 Revelation 1:1 Ephesians 1:9 Galatians 4:6 1 Peter 1:11 Luke 10:23 John 8:26 2 Kings 6:8-12 Ephesians 3:5 John 12:26 Amos 3:7 John 17:26 James 1:1 John 4:19 John 17:6-8 Romans 16:25-26 Acts 20:27 John 13:16 John 15:20 2 Peter 1:1 Jude 1:1 -
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It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my He may give you.
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2 Timothy 3:15-17 John 13:18 John 6:70 John 15:19 Ephesians 2:10 2 Timothy 2:2 Luke 6:13 1 Peter 1:14-21 1 Peter 3:2 John 14:13-14 1 Peter 3:15 1 John 4:19 John 16:23-24 Psalm 145:4 Colossians 1:23 Mark 16:15-16 James 3:18 Matthew 21:22 Galatians 1:15 1 Corinthians 10:11 Romans 15:15-19 Acts 1:24 Isaiah 27:6 1 Corinthians 9:16-18 2 Timothy 1:11 Matthew 28:18-19 Hebrews 11:4 Romans 15:4 Acts 22:14 Jeremiah 1:5-7 Isaiah 49:1-3 Isaiah 55:10-13 Psalm 78:4-6 Psalm 71:18 Romans 1:13 Acts 1:8 Romans 9:21 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 Romans 9:11-16 Romans 1:5 Colossians 1:6 Zechariah 1:4-6 John 21:15-17 1 Timothy 2:7 Acts 20:25-28 John 15:7-8 Titus 1:5 Acts 10:41 Acts 9:15 1 John 4:10 Micah 5:7 Genesis 18:18 John 20:21-23 Luke 24:47-49 Proverbs 11:30 -
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“Thus I command you to one another.
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- 18 If the world hates you, that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
- 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world—for that reason the world hates you.
- 20 Bear in mind what I said to you, ‘A is not superior to his master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
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But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my —because they do not Him who sent me.
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Matthew 10:22 John 16:3 Matthew 24:9 John 8:19 1 John 2:3-4 Luke 6:22 Matthew 10:39 Psalm 69:7 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Acts 28:25-27 Acts 9:16 Matthew 10:18 Matthew 5:11 Acts 5:41 Revelation 2:3 Isaiah 66:5 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Acts 3:17 Acts 17:23 Romans 1:28 John 8:54 1 Corinthians 2:8 1 Corinthians 15:34 1 Peter 4:13-14 - 22 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.
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He who hates me hates my Father also.
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If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.
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John 14:9 John 10:37 John 5:36 John 7:31 John 9:32 Matthew 9:33 John 3:2 John 10:32 Acts 10:38 John 12:37-40 Mark 2:12 Psalm 81:15 James 4:4 Luke 24:19 John 12:10 Romans 1:30 Romans 8:7-8 John 11:47-50 Hebrews 2:3-4 John 12:45 Luke 19:37-40 Luke 10:12-16 Acts 2:22 Exodus 20:5 John 6:36 Deuteronomy 5:9 Matthew 21:32 Proverbs 8:36 Matthew 11:20-24 Matthew 11:5 2 Timothy 3:4 - 25 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, ‘They have hated me without any reason.’
- 26 “When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father’s presence—the of Truth who comes forth from the Father’s presence—He will be a witness concerning me.
- 27 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.