⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.^{(A) 5} I am the vine; ^(B) you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit,^(C) because you can do nothing without me. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside^(D) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,^(E) and they are burned.^{(F) 7} If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.^(G)

⁶ The one who says he remains in him^(A) should walk just as he walked.

⁶ Everyone who remains in him^(A) does not sin;^[a](B) everyone who sins^[b] has not seen him or known him.

²⁴ The one who keeps his commands remains in him,^(A) and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us^(B) is from the Spirit^(C) he has given us.

¹³ This is how we know that we remain in him^(A) and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.^(B)

¹⁵ Whoever confesses^(A) that Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.