John 15

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

2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he removes; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes 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. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

5I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me, and I in him, bears much fruit, because apart from me you are not able to do anything.

6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like the branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

8In this my Father is glorified: that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

9Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; remain in my love.

10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

11I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made full.

12This is my command: that you love one another just as I have loved you.

13No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

15I no longer 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 everything that I heard from my Father.

16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you.

17These things I command you, so that you may love one another.

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

19If you were from the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not from the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason 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 also keep yours.

21But they will do all these things to you because of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23The one who hates me also hates my Father.

24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

25But this happened so that the word written in their Law might 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 proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.

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