AFV2020 - John - 15

15:1  "I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman.

15:2  He takes away every branch in Me that does not bear fruit; but He cleanses each one that bears fruit, in order that it may bear more fruit.

15:3  You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you.

15:4  Dwell in Me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself, but only if it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you are dwelling in Me.

15:5  I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who is dwelling in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing.

15:6  If anyone does not dwell in Me, he is cast out as a branch, and is dried up; and men gather them and cast them into a fire, and they are burned.

15:7  If you dwell in Me, and My words dwell in you, you shall ask whatever you desire, and it shall come to pass for you.

15:8  In this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples.

15:9  As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; live in My love.

15:10  If you keep My commandments, you shall live in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and live in His love.

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

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

15:13  No one has greater love than this: that one lay down his life for his friends.

15:14  You are My friends, if you do whatever I command you.

15:15  No longer do I call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends because I have made known to you all the things that I have heard from My Father.

15:16  You yourselves did not choose Me, but I have personally chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you shall ask the Father in My name, He may give you.

15:17  These things I command you, that you love one another.

15:18  If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

15:19  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have personally chosen you out of the world, the world hates you for this.

15:20  Remember the word that I spoke to you: a servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they kept My word, they will keep your word also.

15:21  But they will do all these things to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him Who sent Me.

15:22  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have nothing to cover their sin.

15:23  The one who hates Me hates My Father also.

15:24  If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father.

15:25  But this has happened so that the saying might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'

15:26  But when the Comforter has come, which I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, that one shall bear witness of Me.

15:27  Then you also shall bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning."