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 not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

3 You are already clean because of the message that I have spoken to you.

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to 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.

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 ye, if ye may not remain 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 the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

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 any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to 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 may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

8 My Father is glorified in this, that you bear much fruit and so prove that you are my disciples.

'In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

9 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain 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 my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain 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 I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

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

'This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

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

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

14 You are my friends if you do the things that I command you.

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever 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.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to 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 did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give 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 doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before 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 of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not — but I chose out of the world — because of this 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 to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

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 to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who 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 to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

23 He who hates me also hates my Father.

'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

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 did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have 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 — that the word may be fulfilled that was 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.

'And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

27 You are also testifying because you have been with me from the beginning.

and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.