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)

Remaining with God

²⁴ What you have heard from the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son^(A) and in the Father.^(B)

²⁷ As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, his anointing teaches you about all things^(A) and is true and is not a lie; just as it has taught you,^[a] remain in him.^(B)

God’s Children

²⁸ So now, little children, remain in him so that when he appears^(C) we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.^(D)

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.