Anderson - John - 15

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

15:2  Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

15:3  Now are you pure, through the word which I have spoken to you.

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

15:5  I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

15:6  If any one abide not in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and withers; and such are gathered, and thrown into the fire, and burned.

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

15:8  In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and in this you will be my disciples.

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

15:10  If you keep my commandments, you shall 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 full.

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

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

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

15:15  I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

15:16  You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

15:17  These things I command you, that you may 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. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

15:20  Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

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

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

15:23  He that 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 have had no sin; but now they have both seen, and hated both me and my Father.

15:25  But this is so, that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

15:26  But when the Paraclete has come, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me;

15:27  and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.