| Berean Study Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. | 1"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper. |
| 2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. | 2Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. |
| 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. | 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. |
| 4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. | 4Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. |
| 5I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. | 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me. |
| 6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned. | 6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. |
| 7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. | 7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. |
| 8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples. | 8My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. |
| 9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. | 9"As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love. |
| 10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. | 10If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commands and remain in His love. |
| 11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. | 11"I have spoken these things to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. |
| 12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | 12This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you. |
| 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. | 13No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends. |
| 14You are My friends if you do what I command you. | 14You are My friends if you do what I command you. |
| 15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. | 15I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn't know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father. |
| 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. | 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. |
| 17This is My command to you: Love one another. | 17This is what I command you: Love one another. |
| 18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. | 18"If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you. |
| 19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. | 19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. |
| 20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. | 20Remember the word I spoke to you: A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours. |
| 21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me. | 21But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because 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. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. | 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin. |
| 23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. | 23The one who hates Me also hates My Father. |
| 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. | 24If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. |
| 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’ | 25But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason. |
| 26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me. | 26"When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father--He will testify about Me. |
| 27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. | 27You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. |
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