John 15
The Vine and the Branches
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. Every branch in me that doesn't
bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that
it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned clean
because of the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I in you. As
the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so
neither can you, unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the
branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit,
for apart from me you can do nothing. If a man doesn't remain in me, he
is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw
them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in me, and my words
remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for
you.
"In this is my Father
glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
Even as the Father has
loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you
will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and
remain in his love. I
have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that
your joy may be made full.
"This is my commandment,
that you love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than
this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do
whatever I command you. No longer do I call you
servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have
called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have
made known to you. You
didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go
and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will
ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
"I command these things to
you, that you may love one another.
The World Hates the Disciples
"If the world hates you, you know
that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the
world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I
chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to
you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they
will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
But all these things
will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who
sent me. If I had not
come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no
excuse for their sin. He
who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn't done among them the
works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they
seen and also hated both me and my Father. But this happened so that the
word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me
without a cause.'
"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify
about me. You will also
testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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