15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 15:2
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. 15:3 You
are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to
you. 15:4 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. 15:5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who
remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from
me you can do nothing. 15:6 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 burned. 15:7 If you remain in me,
and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it
will be done for you.
15:8 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples. 15:9 Even as the Father has loved
me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 15:10 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. 15:11 I have spoken
these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy
may be made full.
15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as
I have loved you. 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that
someone 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, 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. 15:16 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.
15:17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one
another. 15:18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me
before it hated you. 15:19 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. 15:20 Remember the
word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.'49
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my
word, they will keep yours also. 15:21 But all these things will they
do to you for my name's sake, because they don't 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 no excuse for their sin. 15:23 He who hates
me, hates my Father also. 15:24 If I hadn't done among them the works
which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they
seen and also hated both me and my Father. 15:25 But this happened so
that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They
hated me without a cause.'
15:26 "When the Counselor 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. 15:27 You will also testify, because you
have been with me from the beginning.
