Աստվածաշնչի հայտնի հատվածներ John 15-ից

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“I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches. As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you—but when you live separated from me you are powerless.

So you must remain in life-union with me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine.

But if you live in life-union with me and if my words live powerfully within you—then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done.

You didn’t choose me, but I’ve chosen and commissioned you to go into the world to bear fruit. And your fruit will last, because whatever you ask of my Father, for my sake, he will give it to you!

For the greatest love of all is a love that sacrifices all. And this great love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends.

He cares for the branches connected to me by lifting and propping up the fruitless branches and pruning every fruitful branch to yield a greater harvest.

“So this is my command: Love each other deeply, as much as I have loved you.

When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are my mature disciples who glorify my Father!

“I am a true sprouting vine, and the farmer who tends the vine is my Father.

If a person is separated from me, he is discarded; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned.

My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!

If you keep my commands, you will live in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by his love.

So this is my parting command: Love one another deeply!”

If you were to give your allegiance to the world, they would love and welcome you as one of their own. But because you won’t align yourself with the values of this world, they will hate you. I have chosen you and taken you out of the world to be mine.