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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Vine and the Branches</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">he prunes </span><span class="ft">also means </span><span class="fqa">he cleans.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that it will be even more fruitful.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">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.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.15.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is to my Father&#8217;s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.15.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father&#8217;s commands and remain in his love.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one&#8217;s life for one&#8217;s friends.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You are my friends if you do what I command.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master&#8217;s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit&#8212;fruit that will last&#8212;and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is my command: Love each other.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The World Hates the Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.15.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember what I told you: &#8216;A servant is not greater than his master.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:20 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="JHN.13.16">John 13:16</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: &#8216;They hated me without reason.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:25 </span><span class="ft">Psalms 35:19; 69:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.15.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father&#8212;the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father&#8212;he will testify about me.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="PRO.4">
         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Get Wisdom at Any Cost</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen, my sons, to a father&#8217;s instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="content">pay attention and gain understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I give you sound learning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="content">so do not forsake my teaching.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I too was a son to my father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="content">still tender, and cherished by my mother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then he taught me, and he said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Take hold of my words with all your heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">keep my commands, and you will live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Get wisdom, get understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="content">do not forget my words or turn away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="content">love her, and she will watch over you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The beginning of wisdom is this: Get</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Wisdom is supreme; therefore get</span></span></span><span class="content"> wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="content">Though it cost all you have,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wisdom. / Whatever else you get</span></span></span><span class="content"> get understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Cherish her, and she will exalt you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="content">embrace her, and she will honor you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">She will give you a garland to grace your head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="content">and present you with a glorious crown.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Listen, my son, accept what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="content">and the years of your life will be many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I instruct you in the way of wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="content">and lead you along straight paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you walk, your steps will not be hampered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="content">when you run, you will not stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hold on to instruction, do not let it go;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="content">guard it well, for it is your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not set foot on the path of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="content">or walk in the way of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Avoid it, do not travel on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="content">turn from it and go on your way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For they cannot rest until they do evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="content">they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They eat the bread of wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="content">and drink the wine of violence.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">shining ever brighter till the full light of day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="content">they do not know what makes them stumble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, pay attention to what I say;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="content">turn your ear to my words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not let them out of your sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="content">keep them within your heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for they are life to those who find them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="content">and health to one&#8217;s whole body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Above all else, guard your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="content">for everything you do flows from it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Keep your mouth free of perversity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="content">keep corrupt talk far from your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let your eyes look straight ahead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="content">fix your gaze directly before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Give careful thought to the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Make level</span></span></span><span class="content"> paths for your feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="content">and be steadfast in all your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Do not turn to the right or the left;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.4.27"><span class="content">keep your foot from evil.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.1.8"></span></div>
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