John 15

1 I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Vine-grower.

I am the true vyne and my father ys an husbande man.

2 Any unfruitful branch in me he takes away, and he cleanses every fruitful branch, that it may bear more fruit.

Every braunche that beareth not frute in me he will take awaye. And every braunche that beareth frute will he pourge yt it maye bringe moare frute.

3 You are already clean because of the Message that I have given you.

Now are ye cleane thorow ye wordes which I have spoke vnto you.

4 Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains united to the vine; no more can you, unless you remain united to me.

Byde in me and let me byde in you. As ye braunche canot beare frute of it sylfe excepte it byde in the vyne: no more can ye excepte ye abyde in me.

5 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him — he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.

I am the vyne and ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth moche frute. For with out me can ye do nothinge.

6 If any one does not remain united to me, he is thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up. Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt.

Yf a man byde not in me he ys cast forthe as a braunche and is wyddered: and men gadder it and cast it into the fyre and it burneth.

7 If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours.

Yf ye byde in me and my wordes also byde in you: axe what ye will and it shalbe done to you.

8 It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honoured.

Heare in is my father glorified that ye beare moche frute and be made my disciples.

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

As the father hath loved me eve so have I leved you. Continue in my love.

10 If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father’s commands to heart and remain in his love.

Yf ye shall kepe my comaudemetes ye shall byde in my love eve as I have kept my fathers comaundementes and byde in his love.

11 I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete.

These thinges have I spoken vnto you yt my ioye myght remayne in you and that youre ioye might be full.

12 This is my command — Love one another, as I have loved you.

This is my commaundement that ye love togedder as I have loved you.

13 No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

Gretter love then this hath no man then that a man bestowe his lyfe for his frendes.

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

Ye are my fredes yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you.

15 I no longer call you ‘servants,’ because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of ‘friends,’ because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

Hence forth call I you not servauntes: for the servaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you have I called frendes: for all thinges that I have hearde of my father I have opened to you.

16 It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordeyned you that ye go and bringe forthe frute and that youre frute remayne that whatsoever ye shall axe of the father in my name he shulde geve it you.

17 I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.

This comaunde I you that ye love to gedder.

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

Yf ye worlde hate you ye knowe that he hated me before he hated you.

19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world — that is why the world hates you.

Yf ye were of the worlde ye worlde wolde love his awne. How be it because ye are not of ye worlde but I have chosen you out of the worlde therfore hateth you the worlde.

20 Remember what I said to you — ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

Remember the sayinge that I sayde vnto you: the servaute is not greater then his lorde. Yf they have persecuted me so will they persecute you Yf they have kept my sayinge so will they kepe youres.

21 But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

But all these thinges will they do vnto you for my names sake because they have not knowen him that sent me.

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

If I had not come and spoken vnto them they shulde not have had synne: but now have they nothinge to cloke their synne with all.

23 He who hates me hates my Father also.

He that hateth me hateth my father.

24 If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

If I had not done workes amoge the which none other ma dyd they had not had synne. But now have they sene and yet have hated bothe me and my father:

25 And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law — ‘They hated me without cause.’

eve that the sayinge myght be fulfilled that is written in theyr lawe: they hated me wtout a cause.

26 But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father — he will bear testimony to me;

But when the comforter is come whom I will sende vnto you fro the father which is the sprete of truthe which proceadeth of the father he shall testifie of me.

27 yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.

And ye shall beare witnes also because ye have bene with me from the begynninge.