John - Chapter 15

Passage

I am the true vine: and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away: and every one that bears fruit, he will prune, so that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine: you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me, he shall be thrown out like a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burns. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will: and it shall be done for you. In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: just as I also have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no one has, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. I will not now call you servants: for the servant does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things, whatever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain: so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you. 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, that is why the world hates you. Remember my 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 word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause. But when the Paraclete comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he shall give testimony of me. And you also shall give testimony, because you have been with me from the beginning.