John 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Jesus Is the Vine--Followers Are Branches

Jhn 15:1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

Jhn 15:2Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Jhn 15:3

Jhn 15:3You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.

Jhn 15:4

Jhn 15:4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

Jhn 15:5

Jhn 15:5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Jhn 15:6

Jhn 15:6If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.

Jhn 15:7

Jhn 15:7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

Jhn 15:8

Jhn 15:8By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.

Jhn 15:9

Jhn 15:9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

Jhn 15:10

Jhn 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Jhn 15:11

Jhn 15:11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Disciples' Relation to Each Other

Jhn 15:12

Jhn 15:12"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Jhn 15:13

Jhn 15:13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jhn 15:14

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

Jhn 15:15

Jhn 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Jhn 15:16

Jhn 15:16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Jhn 15:17

Jhn 15:17This I command you, to love one another.

Disciples' Relation to the World

Jhn 15:18

Jhn 15:18"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Jhn 15:19

Jhn 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Jhn 15:20

Jhn 15:20Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Jhn 15:21

Jhn 15:21But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.

Jhn 15:22

Jhn 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Jhn 15:23

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

Jhn 15:24

Jhn 15:24If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

Jhn 15:25

Jhn 15:25It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

Jhn 15:26

Jhn 15:26But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me;

Jhn 15:27

Jhn 15:27and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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