John 15

Jesus the True Vine

¹“ I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ²Every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away; and every one bearing fruit, He prunes it clean so that it may bear more fruit. ³Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴Remain in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither you, unless you remain in Me.

⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. The one remaining in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are able to do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like the branch and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and to you it will come to pass. ⁸In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit, and you shall be My disciples.

No Greater Love

⁹As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. Remain in My love. ¹⁰If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ¹¹These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be full.

¹²This is My commandment, that you should love one another as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are My friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you might ask the Father in My name, He may give you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that you love one another.

The Hatred of the World

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you. ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on account of this, the world hates you.

²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹But they will do all these things against you on account of My name, because they do not know the One having sent Me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³The one hating Me hates My Father also. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works that no other has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵But this is so that the word having been written in their Law may be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me without cause.’

²⁶When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from the Father, He will testify about Me. ²⁷And you also testify, because you are with Me from the beginning.