JohnChapter 15

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¹"I am the true vine. My Father is the gardener who cares for the vineyard. ²He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit. And he trims every branch that does bear fruit. He does this so it will bear even more fruit. ³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself. It must remain in the vine. In the same way, you can't bear fruit unless you remain in me. ⁵I am the vine. You are the branches. If you remain in me and I remain in you, you will bear much fruit. For without me you can do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and dries up. Branches like that are picked up. They are thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want. It will be done for you. ⁸This brings glory to my Father, when you bear much fruit. It shows that you are my disciples. ⁹I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. ¹⁰If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. In the same way, I have obeyed my Father's commands, and I remain in his love. ¹¹I have told you these things so that my joy will be in you. I want your joy to be complete. ¹²This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this: to give up his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends. That is because I have told you everything I learned from my Father. ¹⁶You did not choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name. ¹⁷This is my command to you: Love one another. ¹⁸If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. ²⁰Remember what I told you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you too. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.a ²¹But they will treat you this way because of my name, since they don't know the One who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴I did works among them that no one else ever did. If I had not, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works. And they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this happened to make what is written in their Law come true: 'They hated me for no reason.' ²⁶I will send the Helper to you from the Father. He is the Spirit of truth who comes out from the Father. When he comes, he will tell about me. ²⁷And you also must tell about me, because you have been with me from the beginning.