John 15
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
“I am the vine, the true one, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up, and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
Abide in me and I in you. Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.
5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
“I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.
6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.
7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.
8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me.
9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
“Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love.
10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.
11 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
“I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.
17 This is My command to you: Love one another.
These things I command you so that you love one another.
18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
“When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.
19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that is why the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
Now they will do all of these things to you because of my name, in that they do not know the One who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
The one who hates me hates my Father too.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
If I had not done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’
26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.
“Now when the Enabler comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me.
27 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
