John 15

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

"I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.

2 [As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.

Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

3 Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.

4 Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye abide in me.

Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

6 Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.

"If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.

8 In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.

9 As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.

10 If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

11 I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.

"These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

12 This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.

13 No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

14 Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

15 I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.

It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

"Thus I command you to love one another.

18 If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

20 Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.

23 He that hates me hates also my Father.

He who hates me hates my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.

25 But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'They have hated me without any reason.'

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me;

"When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.

27 and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the] beginning.

And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.