John 15

1 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.

I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Every branch in me that beareth no fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it clean, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.

Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing.

6 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.

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

7 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done for you.

8 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

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

Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

10 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and as I abide in his love.

11 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

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

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

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, just as I have loved you.

13 No one has greater love than this--a man laying 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 what I command you.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever things 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 all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father.

16 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 "Thus I command you to love one another.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

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

19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.

20 Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your’s also.

21 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing 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 had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.

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

23 He who hates me hates my Father also.

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

24 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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

25 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, 'They have hated me without any reason.'

But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, “They hated me without a cause.”

26 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning.