Noyes - John - 15

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

15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit he cleanseth, that it may bear more fruit.

15:3  Ye are clean already, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, unless ye abide in me.

15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for apart from me ye can do nothing.

15:6  If any one abideth not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burned.

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

15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye will become my disciples.

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

15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye will abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

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

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

15:13  Greater love hath no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

15:14  Ye are my friends, if ye do what I command you.

15:15  No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things which I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

15:16  Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever ye ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

15:17  This I command you, that ye love one another.

15:18  If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

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

15:20  Remember what I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my words, they will keep yours also.

15:21  But all these things will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.

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

15:23  He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

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

15:25  But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their Law: "They hated me without a cause."

15:26  When the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he will bear witness of me.

15:27  And ye also are witnesses, because ye have been with me from the beginning.