John 15

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

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

2 He cuts off every one of my branches that doesn't bear fruit. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so it can bear even more.

Every branch which in me giveth not fruits he taketh away; and that which giveth fruits he cleanseth, that more fruits it may give.

3 You are already pruned and made clean through what I've told you.

Now are you clean because of the word which I have spoken with you.

4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it remains part of the vine, so it is for you: you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot give fruits of itself if it abide not in the vine, so also cannot you, if you abide not in me.

5 I'm the vine, you're the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit—for apart from me you can't do anything.

I am the vine, and you the branches. Whoso abideth in me, and I in him, this produceth much fruits, because without me you cannot do any thing.

6 Anyone who doesn't remain in me is like a branch that is thrown out and dries up. Such branches are gathered together, thrown into the fire and burned.

But if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, as a withered branch; and, gathering, they cast it into the fire to burn.

7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, then you can ask for whatever you want, and it will be given you.

But if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, all whatever you will to ask shall be unto you.

8 My Father is glorified as you produce much fruit, proving you are my disciples.

IN this is glorified my Father, that much fruit you give, and be my disciples.

9 As the Father loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love.

As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.

10 If you do what I say, you will remain in my love, just as I do what my Father says and remain in his love.

If my commandments you will keep, you shall abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and abide in his love.

11 I've explained this to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

These have I spoken with you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

12 This is my command: love one another as I have loved you.

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

13 There is no greater love than to give your life for your friends.

Love which is greater than this is not, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14 You're my friends if you do what I tell you.

You are my friends, if you do all that I command you.

15 I don't call you servants any longer, for servants are not taken into their master's confidence. I call you friends, for everything my Father told me I've explained to you.

No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

16 You didn't choose me, I chose you. I have given you the responsibility to go and produce lasting fruit. So the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and placed you, that you also may go (and) yield much fruit; and your fruit shall remain, because all that you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.

17 This is my command to you: love one another.

These I command you, That you love one another.

18 If the world hates you, remember that it hated me before it hated you.

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

19 If you were part of this world, it would love you as its own. But you're not part of the world, and I chose you out of the world—that's why the world hates you.

And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth you.

20 Remember what I told you: servants aren't more important than their master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them too.

Remember the word which I spake with you, That there is no servant who is greater than his lord. If me they have persecuted, you also will they persecute; and if my word they had kept, yours also would they keep.

21 But everything they do to you will be because of me, for they don't know the one who sent me.

But these all will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not Him who sent me.

22 If I hadn't come and spoken to them, they wouldn't be guilty of sin—but now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not come and spoken with them, they had not had sin; but now have they no pretext for their sins.

23 Anyone who hates me hates my Father as well.

He who hateth me, my Father also hateth.

24 If I had not given them such a demonstration through things that no one had ever done before, they wouldn't be guilty of sin, but despite seeing all this they hated both me and my Father.

And if the works I had not done before their eyes which no other man hath done, they had not had sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father;

25 But this just fulfilled what Scripture says, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’

that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me undeservedly.

26 But I will send you the Comforter from the Father. When he comes, he will give evidence about me. He is the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father.

But when the Paraclete cometh, He whom I will send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who from my Father cometh forth, He shall testify of me.

27 You will also give evidence about me because you were with me from the beginning.

You also testify, because from the beginning are you with me.