John 15

¹I AM the true vine; and my Father is the husband-man.

²Every branch in me, not bearing fruit, he will take it away: & every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring more fruit.

³Now you are clean for the word which I have spoken to you.

⁴Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so you neither unless you abide in me.

⁵I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

⁶If any abide not in me: he shall be cast forth as the branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth.

⁷If you abide in me, & my words abide in you: you shall ask what thing soever you will, and it shall be done to you.

⁸In this my Father is glorified; that you bring very much fruit, and become my Disciples.

⁹As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's precepts, and do abide in his love.

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

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

¹³Greater love than this no man hath, that a man yield his life for his friends.

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

¹⁵Now I call you not servants: for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But you I have called friends; because all things whatsoever I heard of my Father, I have notified unto you.

¹⁶You chose not me, but I chose you; and have appointed you: that you go, & bring fruit; and your fruit abide: that whatsoever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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

¹⁸If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

¹⁹If you had been of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁰Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his Master. If they have persecuted me, you also will they persecute. If they have kept my word, yours also will they keep.

²¹But all these things they will do to you for my name sake; because they know not him that sent me.

²²If I had not come, and spoken to them, they should not have sin: but now they have no excuse of their sin.

²³He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

²⁴If I had not done among them works that no other man hath done, they should not have sin: but now both they have seen, and they do hate both me and my Father.

²⁵But that the word may be fulfilled, which is written in their law: That they hated me gratis.

²⁶But when the Paraclete cometh whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me:

²⁷and you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.