John 15
1 “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser;
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away, and everyone bearing fruit, He cleanses by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
[As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 you are already clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;
Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 remain in Me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither you, if you may not remain in Me.
Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye abide in me.
5 I AM the vine, you the branches; he who is remaining in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit, because apart from Me you are not able to do anything;
I am the vine, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
6 if anyone may not remain in Me, he was cast forth outside as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast into fire, and they are burned;
Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 if you may remain in Me, and My sayings may remain in you, whatever you may wish you will ask, and it will be done to you.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.
8 In this was My Father glorified, that you may bear much fruit, and you will become My disciples.
In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.
9 According as the Father loved Me, I also loved you, remain in My love;
As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.
10 if you may keep My commands, you will remain in My love, according as I have kept the commands of My Father, and remain in His love;
If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
11 these things I have spoken to you, that My joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.
I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.
12 This is My command, that you love one another, according as I loved you;
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 greater love has no one than this, that anyone may lay down his life for his friends;
No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
14 you are My friends if you may do whatever I command you;
Ye are my friends if ye practise whatever I command you.
15 I no longer call you servants, because the servant has not known what his lord does, and I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from My Father, I made known to you.
I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever you may ask of the Father in My Name, He may give you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another;
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 if the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you;
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
19 if you were of the world, the world would have been cherishing its own, but because you are not of the world, but I chose [you] out of the world—because of this the world hates you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord; if they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will also keep yours;
Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman 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 also yours.
21 but all these things will they do to you, because of My Name, because they have not known Him who sent Me;
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.
22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now they have no pretext 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 He who is hating Me, hates My Father also;
He that hates me hates also my Father.
24 if I did not do among them the works that no other has done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father;
If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated Me without a cause.
But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.
26 And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who comes forth from the Father, He will testify of Me;
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me;
27 and you also testify, because you are with Me from the beginning.”
and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the] beginning.
