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 cultivator.

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 branch in me, which yieldeth not fruits, he taketh it away: and that which yieldeth fruits, he cleanseth it, that it may yield more fruits.

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

Ye henceforth are clean, on account of the discourse I have held with 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 in you. As the branch cannot yield fruits of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so also, neither can ye, unless ye 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, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he yieldeth much fruit; for without me, ye 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.

And if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a withered branch; and they gather it up, and cast it into the fire to be burned.

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

But if ye shall abide in me, and my instructions shall abide in you, whatever ye shall be pleased to ask, it will be given to you.

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

In this is the Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye will be my disciples.

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

As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in the love of me.

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 ye shall keep my commands, ye will abide in the love of me, as I have kept the commands of my Father, and abide 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.

These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may be 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 command, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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

There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

Ye are my friends, if ye do all that 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.

I no longer call you servants; because a servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you my friends; because, whatever I have heard from my Father, I have made known 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 ye that chose me, but I that have chosen you; and I have appointed you, that ye also should go and yield fruits, and that your fruits should continue; so that whatever ye may ask of my Father in my name, he may give it you.

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

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

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

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

And if ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth 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 the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, 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 these things will they do to you, on account of my name, because they know not him that 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 discoursed with them, sin would not have been to them; but now there is no excuse for their sins.

23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

He that hateth me, hateth 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 wrought before them works which no other person ever did, sin would not have been to them: but now they have seen, and have 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.’

so that in them will be fulfilled the word which is written in their law: They hated me, without a 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 Comforter shall come, whom I will send to you from my Father, that Spirit of truth who proceedeth from the Father, He will testify of me.

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

And do ye also testify; for ye have been with me from the beginning.