Yochanan 15

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

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

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.

He takes away every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, and He prunes every branch that bears fruit, so that it may bear more fruit.

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

You are already pruned clean because of the words 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.

Live in me, as I live in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit of itself, unless it lives in the vine, so neither can you, unless you live 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, and you are the branches. Whoever lives in me, and I in them, bears much fruit; for apart from me 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.

Anyone who doesn’t live in me is thrown away as a branch, and dries up. The dried up branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and 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 you live in me, and my words live in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

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

My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, so you will prove to be my disciples.

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

“Just as the Father has sincerely loved me, I have also sincerely loved you. Continue to live in my sincere 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 you keep my commandments, you will continue to live in my sincere love; just as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and continue to live in His sincere 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 told you these things, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

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

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

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

No one has greater sincere love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

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

You are my friends if you do 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 don’t call you servants any longer, because a servant doesn’t know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

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.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, so that you should go and bear fruit, and so that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name He may give you.

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

I command you this, that you sincerely love one another.

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

“If the world hates 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 you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you aren’t the world’s, but I chose 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 that I told you, ‘A servant isn’t greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my teaching, they will also obey 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.

The world will do all these things to you, however, for My name’s sake, because they don’t know Him who 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 hadn’t come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.

Whoever hates me also hates my Father.

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 hadn’t done the works which no one else did among them, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also 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.’

This was to fulfill the word 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.

When the Counselor comes, who I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of me.

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

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