Haweis - John - 15

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

15:2  Every branch in me that beareth no fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it clean, that it may bring forth more fruit.

15:3  Ye are already clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

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

15:5  I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, this person beareth much fruit: because without me ye can do nothing.

15:6  If any man abide not in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

15:8  Herein is my Father glorified, that ye should bring forth much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

15:9  Just as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide in my love.

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

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

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

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

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

15:15  I no more call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his master is doing: but I have called you friends because I have made known to you all things which I have heard of my Father.

15:16  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye should go forth and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent: that so whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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

15:18  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before 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 have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.

15:20  Remember the word which I spake unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my words, they will observe your’s also.

15:21  But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

15:22  Had I 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 hateth me hateth my Father also.

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

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

15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

15:27  and ye too shall bear your testimony, because ye have been with me from the beginning.