John Chapter 15
1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in Me that does not
bear fruit He takes away; and every branch
that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You
are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide
in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 I am
the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me,
and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If
anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a
branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the
fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words
abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and
it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so
you will be My disciples. 9 "As
the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My
love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you
will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide
in His love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My
joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This
is My commandment, that you love one another as I have
loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's
life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do
whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know
what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I
heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You
did not 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 ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These
things I command you, that you love one another. 18 "If
the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it
hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet
because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you. 20 Remember 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 keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin,
but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who
hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I
had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no
sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and
My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled
which is written in their law, 'They hated Me
without a cause.' 26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you
from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will
testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me
from the beginning.