John 15

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

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

2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will bear more fruit.

Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 You have already been pruned by the word I have spoken to you.

Now all of you are clean through the word (logos) which I have spoken unto you.

4 Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can all of you, except all of you abide in me.

5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

I am the vine, all of you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me all of you can do nothing.

6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

If all of you abide in me, and my words (rhema) abide in you, all of you shall ask what all of you will, and it shall be done unto you.

8 My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit, and by doing so you will be my disciples.

Herein is my Father glorified, that all of you bear much fruit; so shall all of you be my disciples.

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

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue all of you in my love. (agape)

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 all of you keep my commandments, all of you shall abide in my love; (agape) even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (agape)

11 I have told you these things so that my joy may abide in you, and so that your joy may be full.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

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

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

Greater love (agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

All of you are my friends, if all of you do whatsoever I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I heard from my Father.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name he will give you.

All of you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that all of you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever all of you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

These things I command you, that all of you love one another.

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

If the world hate you, all of you know that it hated me before it hated you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

If all of you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because all of you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Remember the word (logos) that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, (logos) they will keep your also.

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

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

He that hates me hates my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else had done, they would have no sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But this has happened to fulfill what is written in their law: ‘They hated me for no reason.’

But this comes to pass, that the word (logos) might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit (pneuma) of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 You must also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

And all of you also shall bear witness, because all of you have been with me from the beginning.