John 15:1-15 ▼

1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

3 You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

5 I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me--and I in him--bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

8 My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

9 Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

12 My commandment is this--to love one another just as I have loved you.

13 No one has greater love than this--that one lays down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.