John 15

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

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

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 branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

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

Now all of you are clean through the word (logos) which I have spoken unto 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 in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can all of you, except all of 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, all of you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me all of 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 burnt.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

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 all of you abide in me, and my words (rhema) abide in you, all of you shall ask what all of you will, and it shall be done unto you.

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

Herein is my Father glorified, that all of you bear much fruit; so shall all of you be my disciples.

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

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue all of you in my love. (agape)

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 all of you keep my commandments, all of you shall abide in my love; (agape) even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (agape)

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

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

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

This is my commandment, That all of you love one another, as I have loved you.

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

Greater love (agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

All of you are my friends, if all of you do whatsoever 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 lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto 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.

All of you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that all of you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever all of you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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

These things I command you, that all of 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, all of you know 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 all of you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because all of you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore 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 the word (logos) that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, (logos) they will keep your also.

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 these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that 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 unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak 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 amongst 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 the works which no other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and 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.’

But this comes to pass, that the word (logos) might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

26 “When the Counsellor 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 Comforter has come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit (pneuma) of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:

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

And all of you also shall bear witness, because all of you have been with me from the beginning.