John 15 (NET)

John 15:1¹“I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:2²He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:3³You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:4⁴Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:5⁵“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me—and I in him—bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:6⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:7⁷If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:8⁸My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:9⁹“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:10¹⁰If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:11¹¹I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:12¹²My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:13¹³No one has greater love than this—that one lays down his life for his friends.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:14¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:15¹⁵I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:16¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:17¹⁷This I command you—to love one another.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:18¹⁸“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:19¹⁹If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:20²⁰Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:21²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:22²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:23²³The one who hates me hates my Father too.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:24²⁴If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:25²⁵Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:26²⁶When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me,LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

John 15:27²⁷and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy