15John 15

1"I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.Select John 15:1

2Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.Select John 15:2

3Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.Select John 15:3

4Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.Select John 15:4

5I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.Select John 15:5

6If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up. Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and they are burned.Select John 15:6

7"If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you, ask what you will and it shall be done for you.Select John 15:7

8By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit and thus being true disciples of mine.Select John 15:8

9As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you: continue in my love.Select John 15:9

10If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.Select John 15:10

11"These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy in you, and that your joy may become perfect.Select John 15:11

12This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I have loved you.Select John 15:12

13No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.Select John 15:13

14You are my friends, if you do what I command you.Select John 15:14

15No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.Select John 15:15

16It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.Select John 15:16

17"Thus I command you to love one another.Select John 15:17

18If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.Select John 15:18

19If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.Select John 15:19

20Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.Select John 15:20

21But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.Select John 15:21

22"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.Select John 15:22

23He who hates me hates my Father also.Select John 15:23

24If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.Select John 15:24

25But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me without any reason.'Select John 15:25

26"When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.Select John 15:26

27And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.Select John 15:27