Jun. 13, 14
John 15
Joh 15:1 "I am the
true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Joh 15:2 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.
Joh 15:3 You are
already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Joh 15:4 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.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine.
You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same
bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 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.
Joh 15:7 If you remain
in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire,
and it will be done for you.
Joh 15:8 "In this
is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be
my disciples.
Joh 15:9 Even as the
Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
Joh 15:10 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.
Joh 15:11 I have spoken
these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy
may be made full.
Joh 15:12 "This is
my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love
has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 You are my
friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Joh 15:15 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.
Joh 15:16 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.
Joh 15:17 "I
command these things to you, that you may love one another.
Joh 15:18 If the world
hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Joh 15:19 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.
Joh 15:20 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 keep yours also.
Joh 15:21 But all these
things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't
know him who sent me.
Joh 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.
Joh 15:23 He who hates
me, hates my Father also.
Joh 15:24 If I hadn't
done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have
had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
Joh 15:25 But this
happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their
law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
Joh 15:26 "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.
Joh 15:27 You will also
testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.