在我们众人里面的生命，乃是一个生命。在你里面的生命和在我里面的生命，是完全一样的。所有枝子的内里生命乃是一个；这生命该不断的流遍所有的枝子。这样，所有的枝子便生意盎然，满有生命的丰富，好结出果子来。
枝子虽有许多，他们却是一。他们与葡萄树是一，彼此也是一。所有的枝子加上葡萄树，乃是一个实体，一个生机体。
枝子与葡萄树有亲密的关系。枝子不是主的奴仆，乃是祂的朋友。因着枝子是主的朋友，他们就能明白父的愿望是要在团体的身体中得着彰显。
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The life within all of us is one life. The life in you is exactly the same as the life in me. This resembles the circulation of the blood in our physical body. The blood in our body circulates through every member of our body. In like manner, the inner life of all the branches is one. This life should continually circulate through all the branches. Then all the branches will be so living and filled with the riches of life in order to bear fruit.
Although the branches are many, they are one. They are one with the vine and with one another. All the branches together with the vine are one entity, one organism.
The branches are in an intimate relationship with the vine. The branches are not the Lord’s slaves; they are his friends. Because they are the Lord’s friends, the branches can know the Father’s desire that he be expressed in a corporate body.