John 15

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

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.

Every branch which in me giveth not fruits he taketh away; and that which giveth fruits he cleanseth, that more fruits it may give.

3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

Now are you clean because of the word which I have spoken with 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. As the branch cannot give fruits of itself if it abide not in the vine, so also cannot you, if you abide not 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 the branches. Whoso abideth in me, and I in him, this produceth much fruits, because without me you cannot do any thing.

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.

But if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, as a withered branch; and, gathering, they cast it into the fire to burn.

7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

But if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, all whatever you will to ask shall be unto you.

8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

IN this is glorified my Father, that much fruit you give, and be my disciples.

9 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.

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 my commandments you will keep, you shall abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, 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.

These have I spoken with you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be 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, as I have loved you.

13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Love which is greater than this is not, that a man 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 all that 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.

No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

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.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and placed you, that you also may go (and) yield much fruit; and your fruit shall remain, because all that you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.

17 This is My command to you: Love one another.

These I command you, That you love one another.

18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.

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.

And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth 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 which I spake with you, That there is no servant who is greater than his lord. If me they have persecuted, you also will they persecute; and if my word they had kept, yours also would they keep.

21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

But these all will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not Him 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 with them, they had not had sin; but now have they no pretext for their sins.

23 Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

He who hateth me, my Father also hateth.

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.

And if the works I had not done before their eyes which no other man hath done, they had not had sin; but now they have 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.’

that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me undeservedly.

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.

But when the Paraclete cometh, He whom I will send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who from my Father cometh forth, He shall testify of me.

27 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

You also testify, because from the beginning are you with me.