Etheridge - John - 15

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

15:2  Every branch which in me giveth not fruits he taketh away; and that which giveth fruits he cleanseth, that more fruits it may give.

15:3  Now are you clean because of the word which I have spoken with you.

15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot give fruits of itself if it abide not in the vine, so also cannot you, if you abide not in me.

15:5  I am the vine, and you the branches. Whoso abideth in me, and I in him, this produceth much fruits, because without me you cannot do any thing.

15:6  But if a man abide not in me, he is cast without, as a withered branch; and, gathering, they cast it into the fire to burn.

15:7  But if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, all whatever you will to ask shall be unto you.

15:8  IN this is glorified my Father, that much fruit you give, and be my disciples.

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

15:10  If my commandments you will keep, you shall abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and abide in his love.

15:11  These have I spoken with you, that my joy may be 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  Love which is greater than this is not, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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

15:15  No more I call you servants, for the servant knoweth not what doeth his Lord; but my friends have I called you; wherefore all that I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

15:16  You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and placed you, that you also may go (and) yield much fruit; and your fruit shall remain, because all that you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.

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

15:18  And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.

15:19  And if of the world you were, the world its own would have loved; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you from the world; on which account the world hateth you.

15:20  Remember the word which I spake with you, That there is no servant who is greater than his lord. If me they have persecuted, you also will they persecute; and if my word they had kept, yours also would they keep.

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

15:22  If I had not come and spoken with them, they had not had sin; but now have they no pretext for their sins.

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

15:24  And if the works I had not done before their eyes which no other man hath done, they had not had sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father;

15:25  that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated me undeservedly.

15:26  But when the Paraclete cometh, He whom I will send unto you from my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who from my Father cometh forth, He shall testify of me.

15:27  You also testify, because from the beginning are you with me.