John 15
Jesus says he is the true vine and his followers are the branches; apart from him they can do nothing. Those who remain in him bear much fruit. He commands them to love one another as he has loved them, calls them friends, and warns that the world will hate them as it hated him.
Key verses
1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.SelectedJohn 15:1Ask
2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.SelectedJohn 15:2Ask
3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.SelectedJohn 15:3Ask
4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.SelectedJohn 15:4Ask
5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.SelectedJohn 15:5Ask
6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.SelectedJohn 15:6Ask
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.SelectedJohn 15:7Ask
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.SelectedJohn 15:8Ask
9As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.SelectedJohn 15:9Ask
10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.SelectedJohn 15:10Ask
11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.SelectedJohn 15:11Ask
12This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.SelectedJohn 15:12Ask
13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.SelectedJohn 15:13Ask
14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.SelectedJohn 15:14Ask
15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.SelectedJohn 15:15Ask
16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.SelectedJohn 15:16Ask
17These things I command you, that ye love one another.SelectedJohn 15:17Ask
18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.SelectedJohn 15:18Ask
19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.SelectedJohn 15:19Ask
20Remember the word that 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 kept my saying, they will keep yours also.SelectedJohn 15:20Ask
21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.SelectedJohn 15:21Ask
22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.SelectedJohn 15:22Ask
23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.SelectedJohn 15:23Ask
24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.SelectedJohn 15:24Ask
25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.SelectedJohn 15:25Ask
26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:SelectedJohn 15:26Ask
27And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.SelectedJohn 15:27Ask
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Read alongside
- Galatians 5:22The fruit of the Spirit
- 1 John 3:16He laid down his life for us