15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
15:2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ①prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
▷ ①Lit cleans; used to describe pruning
15:3 You are already ①clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
▷ ①I.e., pruned like a branch
15:4 Remain in Me, ①and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit ②of itself ③but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.
▷ ①Or I also remain in you ②Lit from ③Lit if it does not remain
15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him ①bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
▷ ①Lit this one bears
15:6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
15:7 If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
15:8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ①prove to be My disciples.
▷ ①Or become My disciples
15:9 Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love.
15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
15:11 These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
15:12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.
15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15:15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
15:16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
15:17 This I command you, that you love one another.
15:18 “If the world hates you, ①you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
▷ ①Or (command) know that
15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
15:20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also.
15:21 But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ①sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
▷ ①I.e., guilt
15:23 The one who hates Me hates My Father also.
15:24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have ①sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
▷ ①I.e., responsibility for their sin
15:25 But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘THEY HATED ME FOR NO REASON.’
15:26 “When the ①Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, He will testify about Me,
▷ ①Or Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor
15:27 and ①you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
▷ ①Or (command) testify, you as well