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 which in me giveth not fruits he taketh away; and that which giveth fruits he cleanseth, that more fruits it may give.

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

Now are you clean because of the word which I have spoken with 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 give fruits of itself if it abide not in the vine, so also cannot you, if you abide not 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, and you the branches. Whoso abideth in me, and I in him, this produceth much fruits, because without me you cannot do any thing.

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.

But if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, as a withered branch; and, gathering, they cast it into the fire to burn.

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

But if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, all whatever you will to ask shall be unto you.

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

IN this is glorified my Father, that much fruit you give, and be my disciples.

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

As my Father hath loved me, so I have loved you: continue in the love of me.

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 my commandments you will keep, you shall abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and 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 have I spoken with you, that my joy may be in you, and that 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 you love one another, as I have loved you.

13 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

Love which is greater than this is not, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

You are my friends, if you do all that 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.

No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

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.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and placed you, that you also may go (and) yield much fruit; and your fruit shall remain, because all that you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.

17 "Thus I command you to love one another.

These I command you, That you love one another.

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

And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.

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.

And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account 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 with you, That there is no servant who is greater than his lord. If me they have persecuted, you also will they persecute; and if my word they had kept, yours also would they keep.

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 these all will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not Him who 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.

If I had not come and spoken with them, they had not had sin; but now have they no pretext for their sins.

23 He who hates me hates my Father also.

He who hateth me, my Father also hateth.

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.

And if the works I had not done before their eyes which no other man hath done, they had not had sin; but now they have 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.'

that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me undeservedly.

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 Paraclete cometh, He whom I will send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who from my Father cometh forth, He shall testify of me.

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

You also testify, because from the beginning are you with me.