John 15

1 “I am the vine, the true one, and my Father is the vinedresser.

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

2 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.

Every barren branch in me, he lops off; every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful.

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

As for you, you are already clean, through the instructions I have given you.

4 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.

Abide in me, and I will abide in you; as the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

5 “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.

I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and in whom I abide, produces much fruit; for, severed from me, you can do nothing.

6 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.

If any man abide not in me, he is cast forth like withered branches, which are gathered for fuel, and burnt.

7 If you abide in me and my sayings abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted you.

8 My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me.

In this is my Father glorified, that you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide in my love.

As the Father loves me, so do I love you: continue in my love.

10 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.

If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love.

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

I give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete.

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

This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I love you.

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

No man has greater love than this, to lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

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

15 “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.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his master will do: but I name you friends; for whatever I have learned from my Father, I impart to you.

16 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.

It is not you who have chosen me; but it is I who have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bear fruit: fruit which will prove permanent, that the Father may give you whatsoever you shall ask him in my name.

17 These things I command you so that you love one another.

This I command you, that you love one another.

18 “When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.

If the world hate you, consider that it hated me, before it hated you.

19 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.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, I having selected you from the world, the world hates you.

20 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.

Remember what 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 observed my word, they will also observe yours.

21 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.

But all this treatment they will give you on my account, because they know not him who sent me.

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

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

23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

He that hates me, hates my Father also.

24 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.

If I had not done among them such works as none other ever did, they had not had sin; but now they have seen them, and yet hated both me and my Father.

25 However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

Thus they verify that passage in their law, "They hated me without cause."

26 “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.

But when the Advocate is come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify concerning me.

27 And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.