15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. |
15:2 He removes every branch in me that does not produce fruit, and he cleanses every branch that does produce fruit so that it might produce more fruit. |
15:3 You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. |
15:4 "Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. |
15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. |
15:6 Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. People gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. |
15:7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and it will be yours. |
15:8 This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and prove to be my disciples. |
15:9 Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love. |
15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. |
15:11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. |
15:12 "This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. |
15:13 No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends. |
15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. |
15:15 I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. |
15:16 "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. |
15:17 I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another." |
15:18 "If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you. |
15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. |
15:20 Remember the word that I spoke 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 also keep yours. |
15:21 They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. |
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. |
15:23 The person who hates me also hates my Father. |
15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. |
15:25 But this happened so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: 'They hated me for no reason.' |
15:26 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. |
15:27 You will testify also, because you have been with me from the beginning. |