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John 15
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1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. CCC
2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. CCC
3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. CCC
4 Remain 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. CCC
5 I 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. CCC
6 If 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 burned.
7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. CCC
8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. CCC
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. CCC · Fathers
10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. CCC
11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. CCC
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. CCC
14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. CCC
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. CCC · Fathers
16 You 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. CCC · Fathers
17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. CCC
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. CCC
20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. CCC
21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26 “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. CCC
27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
1 I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman. CCC
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. CCC
3 Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. CCC
4 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. CCC
5 I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. CCC
6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.
7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you. CCC
8 In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples. CCC
9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love. CCC · Fathers
10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father’s commandments and do abide in his love. CCC
11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.
12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. CCC
13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. CCC
14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. CCC
15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. CCC · Fathers
16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. CCC · Fathers
17 These things I command you, that you love one another. CCC
18 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.
19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. CCC
20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. CCC
21 But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.
26 But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me. CCC
27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
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- CCC 755 “The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were…”
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- CCC 308 “The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator.…”
- CCC 755 “The Church is a cultivated field, the tillage of God. On that land the ancient olive tree grows whose holy roots were…”
- CCC 787 “From the beginning, Jesus associated his disciples with his own life, revealed the mystery of the Kingdom to them, and gave them…”
- CCC 859 “Jesus unites them to the mission he received from the Father. As "the Son can do nothing of his own accord," but…”
- CCC 864 “Christ, sent by the Father, is the source of the Church's whole apostolate"; thus the fruitfulness of apostolate for ordained ministers as…”
- CCC 1694 “Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, Christians are "dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus" and so participate in the…”
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- CCC 2615 “Even more, what the Father gives us when our prayer is united with that of Jesus is "another Counselor, to be with…”
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- CCC 737 “The mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit is brought to completion in the Church, which is the Body of Christ and…”
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- CCC 1823 “Jesus makes charity the new commandment. By loving his own "to the end," he makes manifest the Father's love which he receives.…”
- CCC 1824 “Fruit of the Spirit and fullness of the Law, charity keeps the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in my love.…”
“For he who holds, without pride and boasting, the true glory (opinion) regarding created things and the Creator, who is the Almighty God of all, and who has granted existence to all; [such an one,] continuing in His love”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 1824 “Fruit of the Spirit and fullness of the Law, charity keeps the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in my love.…”
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- CCC 459 “The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." "I am the…”
- CCC 1823 “Jesus makes charity the new commandment. By loving his own "to the end," he makes manifest the Father's love which he receives.…”
- CCC 1970 “The Law of the Gospel requires us to make the decisive choice between "the two ways" and to put into practice the…”
- CCC 2074 “Jesus says: "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is…”
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- CCC 363 “In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person. But "soul" also refers to the…”
- CCC 609 “By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no…”
- CCC 614 “This sacrifice of Christ is unique; it completes and surpasses all other sacrifices. First, it is a gift from God the Father…”
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- CCC 142 “By his Revelation, "the invisible God, from the fullness of his love, addresses men as his friends, and moves among them, in…”
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- CCC 1972 “The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy…”
- CCC 142 “By his Revelation, "the invisible God, from the fullness of his love, addresses men as his friends, and moves among them, in…”
“… Him, as He does Himself declare to His disciples: "I will not now call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard from My Father I have made known.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 434 “Jesus' Resurrection glorifies the name of the Saviour God, for from that time on it is the name of Jesus that fully…”
- CCC 737 “The mission of Christ and the Holy Spirit is brought to completion in the Church, which is the Body of Christ and…”
- CCC 2615 “Even more, what the Father gives us when our prayer is united with that of Jesus is "another Counselor, to be with…”
- CCC 2745 “Prayer and Christian life are inseparable, for they concern the same love and the same renunciation, proceeding from love; the same filial…”
- CCC 2815 “This petition embodies all the others. Like the six petitions that follow, it is fulfilled by the prayer of Christ. Prayer to…”
“Wherefore also did the Lord say to His disciples, "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2745 “Prayer and Christian life are inseparable, for they concern the same love and the same renunciation, proceeding from love; the same filial…”
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- CCC 675 “Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution…”
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- CCC 530 “The flight into Egypt and the massacre of the innocents 217 make manifest the opposition of darkness to the light: "He came…”
- CCC 675 “Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution…”
- CCC 765 “The Lord Jesus endowed his community with a structure that will remain until the Kingdom is fully achieved. Before all else there…”
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- CCC 244 “The eternal origin of the Holy Spirit is revealed in his mission in time. the Spirit is sent to the apostles and…”
- CCC 248 “At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses the Father's character as first origin of the Spirit. By confessing the Spirit as he…”
- CCC 692 “When he proclaims and promises the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus calls him the "Paraclete," literally, "he who is called to…”
- CCC 719 “John the Baptist is "more than a prophet." In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the…”
- CCC 729 “Only when the hour has arrived for his glorification does Jesus promise the coming of the Holy Spirit, since his Death and…”
- CCC 1433 “Since Easter, the Holy Spirit has proved "the world wrong about sin," i.e., proved that the world has not believed in him…”