15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. |
15:2 He takes away every branch in Me that does not bear fruit; but He cleanses each one that bears fruit, in order that it may bear more fruit. |
15:3 You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you. |
15:4 Dwell in Me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself, but only if it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you are dwelling in Me. |
15:5 I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who is dwelling in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing. |
15:6 If anyone does not dwell in Me, he is cast out as a branch, and is dried up; and men gather them and cast them into a fire, and they are burned. |
15:7 If you dwell in Me, and My words dwell in you, you shall ask whatever you desire, and it shall come to pass for you. |
15:8 In this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples. |
15:9 As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; live in My love. |
15:10 If you keep My commandments, you shall live in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and live in His love. |
15:11 These things I have spoken to you, in order that My joy may dwell in you, and that your joy may be full. |
15:12 This is My commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you. |
15:13 No one has greater love than this: that one lay down his life for his friends. |
15:14 You are My friends, if you do whatever I command you. |
15:15 No longer do I call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends because I have made known to you all the things that I have heard from My Father. |
15:16 You yourselves did not choose Me, but I have personally chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you shall ask the Father in My name, He may give you. |
15:17 These things I command you, that you love one another. |
15:18 If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. |
15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have personally chosen you out of the world, the world hates you for this. |
15:20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: a servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they kept My word, they will keep your word also. |
15:21 But they will do all these things to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him Who sent Me. |
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have nothing to cover their sin. |
15:23 The one who hates Me hates My Father also. |
15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father. |
15:25 But this has happened so that the saying might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.' |
15:26 But when the Comforter has come, which I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, that one shall bear witness of Me. |
15:27 Then you also shall bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning." |