John 15:1-15 ▼

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

2 Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit.

3 So ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to produce fruit of itself, unless it may abide in the vine; so you are not able, unless you may abide in me.

5 I am the vine, and ye are the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: because you are not able to do anything without me.

6 If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.

7 If you may abide in me, and my words may abide in you, ask whatsoever you may wish, and it shall be done unto you.

8 In this my Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and ye shall be my disciples.

9 As the Father loved me, I also loved you: abide in my love.

10 If you may keep my commandments, abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and I abide in His love.

11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

12 This is my commandment, that you may love one another, as I loved you.

13 No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends.

14 You are my friends, if you may do those things which I command you.

15 No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; because all things which I heard with my Father, I made known unto you.