John 15
1 I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.
"I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.
2 Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.
3 Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you.
"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.
"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.
5 I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and case him into the fire, and be burneth.
"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.
"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.
8 In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.
"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you.
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father’s commandments, and do abide in his love.
"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and abide in his love.
11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.
"I have told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.
"This is my command, Love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.
"You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.
"I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.
16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
"This is my command. to love one another. If the worlds hates you,
18 If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.
"do not forget that it hated me first.
19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant 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 yours also.
"Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not better than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.
21 But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him who sent me.
"But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they know not Him who sent me.
22 If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
"He who hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause.
"And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, ‘They hate me without cause.’
26 But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.
"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;
27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.
