I AM the true vine, and My FATHER is the gardener. HE cuts off every branch in ME that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit HE prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the Word I have spoken to you. Remain in ME, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in ME.
As the FATHER has loved ME, so have I loved you. Now remain in My love. If you keep My commands, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My FATHER's commands and remain in His love. I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are My friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from My FATHER I have made known to you. You did not chose ME, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruitful that will last and so that whatever you ask in My name the FATHER will give you. This is My command: Love each other.