What Does Nrt Stand For

New International Version

The Vine and the Branches

15 "I am^(A) the truthful vine,^(B) and my Father is the gardener. ²He cuts off every co-operative in me that bears no fruit,^(C) while every co-operative that does bear fruit^(D) he prunes^[a] and so that it will exist fifty-fifty more fruitful. ³You are already clean because of the give-and-take I have spoken to you.^{(Due east)} ⁴Remain in me, as I besides remain in you.^(F) No branch can bear fruit by itself; information technology must remain in the vine. Neither can y'all comport fruit unless you remain in me.

⁵"I am the vine; you are the branches. If yous remain in me and I in you, you will conduct much fruit;^(Yard) autonomously from me you can do zilch. ⁶If you do not remain in me, you are similar a co-operative that is thrown abroad and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.^(H) ⁷If you remain in me^(I) and my words remain in you, inquire whatsoever you wish, and it will be done for you.^(J) ^eightThis is to my Father's glory,^(Yard) that you lot bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.^(L)

⁹"As the Father has loved me,^(M) so have I loved y'all. At present remain in my love. ^tenIf you keep my commands,^(N) you will remain in my love, simply every bit I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his dearest. ¹¹I have told you this so that my joy may be in y'all and that your joy may be complete.^(O) ¹²My command is this: Beloved each other as I have loved you.^(P) ¹³Greater love has no one than this: to lay downwards one's life for one's friends.^(Q) ¹⁴You are my friends^(R) if you practise what I command.^(South) ¹⁵I no longer call you servants, because a servant does non know his principal'southward business. Instead, I accept called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I take made known to you.^(T) ¹⁶You lot did non cull me, but I chose you and appointed you^(U) then that you might go and bear fruit^(V)—fruit that will last—so that whatever you inquire in my name the Begetter will give you.^(W) ¹⁷This is my command: Love each other.⁽¹⁰⁾

The Earth Hates the Disciples

^xviii"If the earth hates you,^(Y) go on in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the globe, it would beloved you as its own. As it is, y'all practice not belong to the globe, but I have chosen you^(Z) out of the world. That is why the world hates you lot.^(AA) ²⁰Remember what I told you: 'A retainer is non greater than his master.'^[b] ^(AB) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you lot as well.^{(Air conditioning)} If they obeyed my pedagogy, they will obey yours too. ²¹They volition treat you this way because of my name,^(Ad) for they exercise not know the one who sent me.^(AE) ²²If I had not come and spoken to them,^(AF) they would non exist guilty of sin; only now they accept no alibi for their sin.^(AG) ²³Whoever hates me hates my Father besides. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(AH) they would non be guilty of sin.^(AI) As information technology is, they have seen, and yet they take hated both me and my Male parent. ²⁵Only this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(AJ) 'They hated me without reason.'^[c] ^(AK)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶"When the Advocate^(AL) comes, whom I will transport to y'all from the Father^(AM)—the Spirit of truth^(AN) who goes out from the Father—he will testify most me.^(AO) ²⁷And you also must testify,^(AP) for you have been with me from the starting time.^(AQ)