The In-Dept Study of the Bible
John 15
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the
farmer.
2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear
fruit, he takes away. Every branch that
bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear
more fruit.
3 You are already pruned clean because
of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the
branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it
remains in the vine, so neither can you,
unless you remain in me.
5 I am the vine. You are the branches.
He who remains in me and I in him bears
much fruit, for apart from me you can do
nothing.
6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is
thrown out as a branch and is withered;
and they gather them, throw them into the
fire, and they are burned.
7 If you remain in me, and my words
remain in you, you will ask whatever you
desire, and it will be done for you.
8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you
bear much fruit; and so you will be my
disciples.
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also
have loved you. Remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you
will remain in my love, even as I have kept
my Father’s commandments and remain
in his love.
11 I have spoken these things to you, that
my joy may remain in you, and that your
joy may be made full.
12 “This is my commandment, that you
love one another, even as I have
loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that
someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends if you do whatever
I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for
the servant doesn’t know what his lord
does. But I have called you friends, for
everything that I heard from my Father, I
have made known to you.
16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you
and appointed you, that you should go
and bear fruit, and that your fruit should
remain; that whatever you will ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 “I command these things to you, that
you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that
it has hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world
would love its own. But because you are
not of the world, since I chose you out of
the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you:
‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’* If
they persecuted me, they will also persecute
you. If they kept my word, they will
also keep yours.
21 But they will do all these things to you
for my name’s sake, because they don’t
know him who sent me.
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.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father
also.
24 IfI hadn’t done among them the works
which no one else did, they wouldn’t have
had sin. But now they have seen and also
hated both me and my Father.
25 But this happened so that the word
may be fulfilled which was written in their
law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’*
26 “When the Counselor† has come,
whom I will send to you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the
Father, he will testify about me.
27 You will also testify, because you have
been with me from the beginning.