John 15

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

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

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.

[As to] every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and [as to] every one bearing 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.

Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to 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 unless it abide in the vine, thus neither [can] ye unless ye 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, ye [are] the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for without me ye 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.

Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they 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 ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to 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 ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine.

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

As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you: abide 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 ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide 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 have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be full.

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

This is my commandment, that ye 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.

No one has greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

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

Ye are my friends if ye practise 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.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known 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.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and [that] ye should bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.

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

These things I command you, that ye 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, know that it has hated me before 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 ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this 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 which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also 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 they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known 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 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 also my Father.

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 the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have 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 that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a 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 Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from with the Father, he shall bear witness concerning me;

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

and ye too bear witness, because ye are with me from [the] beginning.