The Gospel of John 15
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The true vine
1“I am the true vine,” said Jesus, “and my father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t bear fruit; and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it can bear more fruit. 3You are already clean. That’s because of the word that I’ve spoken to you.
4“Remain in me, and I will remain in you! The branch can’t bear fruit by itself, but only if it remains in the vine. In the same way, you can’t bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. People who remain in me, and I in them, are the ones who bear plenty of fruit. Without me, you see, you can’t do anything.
6“If people don’t remain in me, they are thrown out, like a branch, and they wither. People collect the branches and put them on the fire, and they are burned. 7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want, and it will happen for you. 8My father is glorified in this: that you bear plenty of fruit, and so become my disciples.”
Obeying and loving
9“As the father loved me,” Jesus continued, “so I loved you. Remain in my love. 10If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my father’s commands, and remain in his love. 11I’ve said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and so that your joy may be full.
12“This is my command: love one another, in the same way that I loved you. 13No one has a love greater than this, to lay down your life for your friends. 14You are my friends, if you do what I tell you. 15I’m not calling you ‘servants’ any longer; servants don’t know what their master is doing. But I’ve called you ‘friends,’ because I’ve let you know everything I heard from my father.
16“You didn’t choose me. I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Then the father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command to you: love one another.”
If the world hates you
18“If the world hates you,” Jesus went on, “know that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you were from the world, the world would be fond of its own. But the world hates you for this reason: that you’re not from the world. No: I chose you out of the world.
20“Remember the word that I said to you: servants are not greater than their masters. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they kept my word, they will keep yours too. 21But they will do all these things to you because of my name, because they don’t know the one who sent me.
22“If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. 23(Anyone who hates me, hates my father as well!) 24If I hadn’t done, there in the middle of them, the works which nobody else did, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin. But now they have seen me, and my father—and they’ve hated us both! 25All this has happened, however, so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me for no reason.’
26“When the helper comes—the one I shall send you from the father, the spirit of truth who comes from the father—he will give evidence about me. 27And you will give evidence as well, because you have been with me from the start.”
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