MKJV - John - 15

15:1  I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

15:2  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.

15:3  Now you are clean through the Word which I have spoken to you.

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

15:5  I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

15:6  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered. And they gather and cast them into the fire, and they are 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 to you.

15:8  In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you shall be My disciples.

15:9  As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you; continue 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  I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.

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

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

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

15:15  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know 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 ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.

15:17  These things I command you, that you 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 that 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 kept My saying, they will also keep yours.

15:21  But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know Him who 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 who hates Me hates My Father also.

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

15:25  But that the Word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, "They hated Me without a cause."

15:26  And when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me.

15:27  And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.