John 15:1-15 ▼

1 I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman.

2 Euery braunche that beareth not fruite in me, he will take away: And euery braunche that beareth fruite wyll he pourge, that it may bryng foorth more fruite.

3 Nowe are ye cleane through the worde which I haue spoken vnto you.

4 Byde in me, and I in you. As the braunche can not beare fruite of it selfe, except it byde in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abyde in me.

5 I am the vine, ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me, and I in hym, the same bryngeth foorth much fruite: For without me can ye do nothyng.

6 Yf a man byde not in me, he is cast foorth as a braunch, and withereth, and men gather them, and cast them into the fyre, and they burne.

7 Yf ye byde in me, and my wordes abyde in you, aske what ye wyll, and it shalbe done for you.

8 Herein is my father glorified: that ye beare much fruite, and become my disciples.

9 As the father hath loued me, euen so haue I loued you: Continue ye in my loue.

10 Yf ye kepe my commaundementes, ye shall abyde in my loue, euen as I haue kept my fathers commaundementes, and abyde in his loue.

11 These thynges haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remayne in you, and that your ioy myght be full.

12 This is my commaundement, that ye loue together, as I haue loued you.

13 Greater loue hath no man, then this: yt a man bestowe his life for his frendes.

14 Ye are my frendes, yf ye do whatsoeuer I commaunde you.

15 Hencefoorth call I you not seruautes: for the seruaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you haue I called frendes, for all thynges that I haue hearde of my father, haue I made knowen to you.