Godbey - John - 15

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

15:2  Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit.

15:3  So ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to produce fruit of itself, unless it may abide in the vine; so you are not able, unless you may abide in me.

15:5  I am the vine, and ye are the branches. The one abiding in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit: because you are not able to do anything without me.

15:6  If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.

15:7  If you may abide in me, and my words may abide in you, ask whatsoever you may wish, and it shall be done unto you.

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

15:9  As the Father loved me, I also loved you: abide in my love.

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

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

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

15:13  No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends.

15:14  You are my friends, if you may do those things which I command you.

15:15  No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord is doing: but I have called you friends; because all things which I heard with my Father, I made known unto you.

15:16  You did not choose me, but I chose you, and placed you in your position, that you may go forth and bear fruit, and your fruit may abide: in order that He may give you whatsoever you may ask in my name.

15:17  I command these things unto you, that you must love one another with divine love.

15:18  If the world hates you, know that it first hated me.

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, on this account the world hates you.

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

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

15:22  If I did not come and speak to them, they had not sin: now they have no excuse for their sin.

15:23  The one hating me hates my Father also.

15:24  If I did not works among them which no other did: they had not sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

15:25  But in order that the word having been written in their law may be fulfilled, That they hated me gratuitously.

15:26  When the Comforter, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, may come, He will witness concerning me,

15:27  but you indeed are witnesses, because you are with me from the beginning.