John 15

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

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

2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Every barren branch in me, he lops off; every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful.

3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

As for you, you are already clean, through the instructions I have given you.

4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Abide in me, and I will abide in you; as the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and in whom I abide, produces much fruit; for, severed from me, you can do nothing.

6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

If any man abide not in me, he is cast forth like withered branches, which are gathered for fuel, and burnt.

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

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted you.

8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

In this is my Father glorified, that you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

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

As the Father loves me, so do I love you: continue in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love.

11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

I give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete.

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

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

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

No man has greater love than this, to lay down his life for his friends.

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

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

15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But 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 knows not what his master will do: but I name you friends; for whatever I have learned from my Father, I impart to you.

16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

It is not you who have chosen me; but it is I who have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bear fruit: fruit which will prove permanent, that the Father may give you whatsoever you shall ask him in my name.

17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

This I command you, that you love one another.

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

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

19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, I having selected you from the world, the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Remember what I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours.

21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

But all this treatment they will give you on my account, because they know not him who sent me.

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

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

23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.

He that hates me, hates my Father also.

24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

If I had not done among them such works as none other ever did, they had not had sin; but now they have seen them, and yet hated both me and my Father.

25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Thus they verify that passage in their law, "They hated me without cause."

26 “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

But when the Advocate is come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify concerning me.

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

And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.