John 15

1 “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser;

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

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;

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 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 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, 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; 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 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;

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

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 you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted 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 you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

9 According as the Father loved Me, I also loved you, remain in My love;

As the Father loves me, so do I love you: continue 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 you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue 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 give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete.

12 This is My command, that you love one another, according as I loved you;

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

13 greater love has no one than this, that anyone may 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 may do whatever I command you;

You are my friends, if you do 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.

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 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.

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, that you love one another;

This I command you, that you love one another.

18 if the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you;

If the world hate you, consider that it hated me, before it hated 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 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 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 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 but all these things will they do to you, because of My Name, because they have not known Him 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 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 my Father also.

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 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 but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated Me without a cause.

Thus they verify that passage in their law, "They hated me without 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 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 testify, because you are with Me from the beginning.”

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