John 15

1 I am the true vine, and My Father is the (true) vinedresser (the only One who can decorate with the fruit of His life).

 

2 Every branch in Me that does not (abide in the vine, which is the commandment and judgment unto life from the Father will not) bear fruit (but is) cut off (from life because of their unbelief): and every branch that (abides in Me) bears fruit, is purged (clean thereby), so that it may bring forth more fruit.

 

3 Now you are (purged) clean (from death) through the word which I have spoken to you.

 

4 Abide in Me, and I (will abide) in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit (alone) by itself unless it abides in the vine; any more than you can (bear fruit, the fruit of eternal life), unless you abide in Me (the Word of life).

 

5 I am the vine, you are the branches: anyone that abides in Me (and the word which I have spoken, keeps My commandment), and I (abide) in them, the same brings forth much fruit (which lives and abides forever): because apart from Me you can do nothing.

 

6 If a man does not abide in Me, he (seeks to establish himself apart from the vine and) is cast away (by himself) as a (broken off unfruitful) branch and is withered, and men gather such (branches) and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

 

7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask (the Father) for the thing your heart (truly) desires, and it will be done to you.

 

8 Through abiding in (the faith of) Me is My Father glorified, in that you bear (all the) fruit (of His life and immortality) in abundance; and (in doing) so will you be My disciples.

 

9 (For) just as the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you: continue (abiding) in My love.

 

10 If you (observe to) keep My commandment (to abide in Me and My words), you will abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandment and abide in His love.

 

11 These things have I spoken to you so that My joy (which is the certainty of the Father’s life) might remain in you, and so that your joy might be full (and complete in Him).

 

12 This is My commandment (abide in Me), So that you love one another, as I have loved you.

 

13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friends.

 

14 You are My friends, if you (observe to) do whatever I command you (from the Father).

 

15 From now on I will not call you servants; for the servant does not know what his master will do: but I have called you friends; for all (the) things that I have heard from My Father, I have made known to you.

 

16 You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you (for an everlasting life), so that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit would remain (forever): so that whatsoever you will ask of the Father in My name (pertaining to His life and Godlikeness), He may give it you (so that you would lack no good thing).

 

17 These things I command you so that you may love one another (as I have loved you).

 

18 If the world hates (and rejects) you, you can be certain that it hated Me before it hated you.

 

19 If you were of the world (born from the corruption that’s in the world which is not of the Father), the world would love their own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

 

20 Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.

 

21 But all these things will they do to you for My name's sake, (for they did not know Me) because they do not know the Father that sent Me.

 

22 If I had not come (from the Father) and spoken to them (declaring the judgment of God concerning the way unto life), they would not have (willfully) trespassed: but now they (are without excuse and) have no cover for their (willful) transgression.

 

23 He that hates (and rejects) Me hates (and rejects) My Father also.

 

24 If I had not done among them the works (of the Father) which no other man did, they would not have (willfully) trespassed: but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father.

 

25 But this has come to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written (of Me) in the law about them, They hated me without a cause.

 

26 But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me:

 

27 And you will also bear witness because you have been with Me from the beginning.