Gospel According to John
15: 1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 15:2Every branch in me
that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he
cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. 15:3Already ye are clean because of the
word which I have spoken unto you. 15:4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye
abide in me. 15:5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. 15:6If a man
abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather
them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 15:7If ye abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
15:8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my
disciples. 15:9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in
my love. 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 15:11These things have
I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
15:12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you. 15:15No longer do I
call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have
called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known
unto you. 15:16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye
should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 15:17These things I command you,
that ye may love one another. 15:18If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath
hated me before it hated you. 15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love its
own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. 15:20Remember the word that I said unto you, A
servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute
you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 15:21But all these things will
they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
15:22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they
have no excuse for their sin. 15:23He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 15:24If I had
not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but
now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 15:25But this cometh to
pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me
without a cause. 15:26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he
shall bear witness of me: 15:27and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with
me from the beginning.