John 15

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

"I am the vine, and my Father the vine-grower.

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;

"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

3 you are already clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

"Now you are clean through 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. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except 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 I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart 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 one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and 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 you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

8 In this was My Father glorified, that you may bear much fruit, and you will become My disciples.

"By this is my Father glorified, by your bearing abundant fruit, and so being my disciples.

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

"As the Father has loved me, so have I 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 you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands 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 told you these things that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

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

"This is my command, 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;

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man 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 what 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 no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

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.

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, that you love one another;

"This is my command. to love one another. If the worlds hates you,

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

"do not forget that it hated me first.

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 belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason 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 told you, ‘A slave is not better than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

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 for my name’s sake, 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 would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He who is hating Me, hates My Father also;

"He who 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 ever did, they would have had no 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.

"And so is fulfilled the word written in their Law, ‘They hate 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;

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

27 and you also testify, because you are with Me from the beginning.”

"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.