Gospel According To John

Gospel According to John (MLV)

John 15)

^15:1 I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-dresser.^15:2 Every branch that is not bearing fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch that is bearing fruit, he prunes it, that it may bear more fruit.^15:3 Already you* are pure because of the word which I have spoken to you*.^15:4 Abide in me and I in you*. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so neither can you*, unless you* abide in me.^15:5 I am the vine, you* are the branches: He who abides in me and I in him, this one bears much fruit: because you* can do nothing separate from me.^15:6 Unless a man abides in me, he is cast outside as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned.^15:7 If you* abide in me and my words abide in you*, ask whatever you* will and it will be done to you*.^15:8 My Father is glorified in this, that you* bear much fruit; and so you* will become my disciples.^15:9 Just-as the Father has loved* me, I have also loved* you*: you* abide in my love*.^15:10 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*.^15:11 I have spoken to you* these things, that my joy may be in you* and that your* joy may be made full.^15:12 This is my commandment, that you* love* one another, just-as I have loved* you*.^15:13 No one has greater love* than this: that a man lay down his life on behalf of his friends.^15:14 You* are my friends, if you* do the things which I command you*.^15:15 I do not call you* bondservants any longer; because the bondservant does not knows what his lord is doing: but I have called you* friends; because all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you*.^15:16 You* did not choose me, but I chose you* and appointed* you*, that you* should go and bear fruit and that your* fruit should abide: that whatever you* will ask of the Father in my name, he will give it you*.^15:17 I command you* to do these things, 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, but I chose you* out of the world, therefore the world hates you*.^15:20 Remember the word that I said to you*, A bondservant 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.^15:21 But they will do all these things to you* because of my name, because they do not 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 concerning their sin.^15:23 He who hates me hates my Father also.^15:24 If I had not done the works which none other did among them, they did not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.^15:25 But this happened, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me undeservedly.^15:26 But when the Helper has come, whom I will send to you* from the Father, who is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify concerning me:^15:27 and you* also testify, because you* have been with me from the beginning.