John 15

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

²Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away , and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes , that it may bear more fruit .

³Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you .

⁴Abide in me , and I in you . As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself , unless it abides in the vine , neither can you, unless you abide in me .

⁵I am the vine ; you are the branches . Whoever abides in me and I in him , he it is that bears much fruit , for apart from me you can do nothing .

⁶If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers ; and the branches are gathered , thrown into the fire , and burned .

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

⁸By this my Father is glorified , that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples .

⁹As the Father has loved me , so have I loved you . Abide in my love .

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁵No longer do I call you servants , for the servant does not know what his master is doing ; but I have called you friends , for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you .

¹⁶You did not choose me , but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide , so that whatever you ask the Father in my name , he may give it to you .

¹⁷These things I command you , so that you will love one another .

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

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

²⁰Remember 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 .

²¹But all these things they will do to you on account of my name , because they do not know him who sent me .

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

²³Whoever hates me hates my Father also .

²⁴If I had not done among them the works that no one else did , they would not be guilty of sin , but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father .

²⁵But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled : They hated me without a cause .

²⁶But when the Helper comes , whom I will send to you from the Father , the Spirit of truth , who proceeds from the Father , he will bear witness about me .

²⁷And you also will bear witness , because you have been with me from the beginning .