LO - John - 15

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

15:2  Every barren branch in me, he lops off; every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful.

15:3  As for you, you are already clean, through the instructions I have given 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, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

15:5  I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in me, and in whom I abide, produces much fruit; for, severed from me, you can do nothing.

15:6  If any man abide not in me, he is cast forth like withered branches, which are gathered for fuel, and burnt.

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

15:8  In this is my Father glorified, that you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.

15:9  As the Father loves me, so do I love you: continue in my love.

15:10  If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love.

15:11  I give you these admonitions, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete.

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

15:13  No man has greater love than this, to lay down his life for his friends.

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

15:15  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his master will do: but I name you friends; for whatever I have learned from my Father, I impart to you.

15:16  It is not you who have chosen me; but it is I who have chosen you, and ordained you to go and bear fruit: fruit which will prove permanent, that the Father may give you whatsoever you shall ask him in my name.

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

15:18  If the world hate you, consider 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, I having selected you from the world, the world hates you.

15:20  Remember what I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours.

15:21  But all this treatment they will give you on my account, because they know not him who sent me.

15:22  If I had not come, and spoken to them, they had not 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 such works as none other ever did, they had not had sin; but now they have seen them, and yet hated both me and my Father.

15:25  Thus they verify that passage in their law, "They hated me without cause."

15:26  But when the Advocate is come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify concerning me.

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