John 15 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Jesus, the True Vine

Jhn 15:1“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.

Jhn 15:2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.

Jhn 15:3

Jhn 15:3You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.

Jhn 15:4

Jhn 15:4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.

Jhn 15:5

Jhn 15:5“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

Jhn 15:6

Jhn 15:6Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.

Jhn 15:7

Jhn 15:7But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!

Jhn 15:8

Jhn 15:8When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

Jhn 15:9

Jhn 15:9“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

Jhn 15:10

Jhn 15:10When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

Jhn 15:11

Jhn 15:11I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!

Jhn 15:12

Jhn 15:12This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

Jhn 15:13

Jhn 15:13There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Jhn 15:14

Jhn 15:14You are my friends if you do what I command.

Jhn 15:15

Jhn 15:15I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

Jhn 15:16

Jhn 15:16You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.

Jhn 15:17

Jhn 15:17This is my command: Love each other.

The World’s Hatred

Jhn 15:18

Jhn 15:18“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

Jhn 15:19

Jhn 15:19The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.

Jhn 15:20

Jhn 15:20Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.

Jhn 15:21

Jhn 15:21They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.

Jhn 15:22

Jhn 15:22They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Jhn 15:23

Jhn 15:23Anyone who hates me also hates my Father.

Jhn 15:24

Jhn 15:24If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.

Jhn 15:25

Jhn 15:25This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures[fn]: ‘They hated me without cause.’

Jhn 15:26

Jhn 15:26“But I will send you the Advocate[fn]—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.

Jhn 15:27

Jhn 15:27And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.