John 15
1 I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
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 takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
3 Now you are clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you.
You are already clean because of the message that 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.
Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain 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 remains in me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for without 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 anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up, and they gather the branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned up.
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 remain in me, and if my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.
My Father is glorified in this, that you bear much fruit and so prove that you are my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you.
As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain 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 keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have kept the commandments of my Father and remain 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 spoken these things to you so that my joy will be in you and so that your joy will be complete.
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 than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
No one has greater love than this—that he 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 the things that 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.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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 so that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. This is so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
These things I command you, so that you love one another.
18 If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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 were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world and because I chose you out of the world, therefore 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 the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake: because they know not him who sent me.
They will do all these things to you because of my name, because they do not know 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 not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
He who hates me also hates my Father.
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 the works that no one else did among them, they would have no sin, but now they have 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.
But this is in order to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a 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—whom I will send to you from the Father, that is, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father—comes, he will testify about me.
27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.
You are also testifying because you have been with me from the beginning.
