Worsley - John - 15

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

15:2  every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away, and every one that beareth fruit, He purgeth, that it may bear more fruit.

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

15:4  Abide therefore in me, and I will abide in you: for as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, 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, beareth much fruit: but without me ye can do nothing.

15:6  If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a useless branch and withereth: and they gather them up, and throw them into the fire, and they are burnt.

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

15:8  Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

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

15:10  and if ye keep my commandments ye will continue in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love.

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

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

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

15:14  and ye are my friends, if ye do what I command you.

15:15  I no longer stile you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth: but I have called you friends; for whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

15:16  Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you.

15:17  These commands I give you, that ye should love one another.

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

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 chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

15:20  Remember what I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. 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 these things will they do unto you, on my account, because they know not Him that sent me.

15:22  If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not 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 such works as no other ever did, they had not comparatively had sin: but now they have both seen, and hated, both me and my Father.

15:25  But thus it is that the word might 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 to you from the Father, (even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,) He shall testify of me.

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