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 takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 You are already clean because of the message that I have spoken to you.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain 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 ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up, and they gather the branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned up.
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 remain in me, and if my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 My Father is glorified in this, that you bear much fruit and so prove that you are my disciples.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have kept the commandments of my Father and remain in his love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 I have spoken these things to you so that my joy will be in you and so that your joy will be complete.
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 as I have loved you.
This is my commandment, That ye 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 hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do the things that I command you.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: 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 so that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. This is so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, so that you love one another.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world and because I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Remember the word 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, they will keep yours also.
21 They will do all these things to you because 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 not have 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 cloke for their sin.
23 He who hates me also hates my Father.
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done the works that no one else did among them, 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 none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this is in order to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 When the Comforter—whom I will send to you from the Father, that is, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father—comes, he will testify about me.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 You are also testifying because you have been with me from the beginning.
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
