John 15:1-17

I Am the True Vine

1 "I am the ¹true vine, and my Father is ²the vinedresser.

2 ³Every branch in me that does not bear fruit ⁴he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, ⁵that it may bear more fruit.

3 Already ⁶you are clean ⁷because of the word that I have spoken to you.

4 ⁸Abide ⁹in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

5 I am the vine; ¹⁰you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that ¹¹bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

6 If anyone does not abide in me ¹²he is thrown away like a branch and withers; ¹³and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

7 If ¹⁴you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ¹⁵ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 ¹⁶By this my Father is glorified, that you ¹⁷bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

9 ¹⁸As the Father has loved me, ¹⁹so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

10 ²⁰If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ²¹I have kept ²²my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

11 These things I have spoken to you, ²³that my joy may be in you, and that ²⁴your joy may be full.

12 ²⁵"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 ²⁶Greater love has no one than this, ²⁷that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are ²⁸my friends ²⁹if you do what I command you.

15 ³⁰No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant^{[b] 31} does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ³²all that I have heard from my Father ³³I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but ³⁴I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ³⁵bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ³⁶whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ³⁷so that you will love one another.

Cross References

• 1. [Jeremiah 2:21]
• 2. [1 Corinthians 3:9]
• 3. ver. 6; Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:19; [Romans 11:17; 2 Peter 1:8]
• 4. [Matthew 15:13; Romans 11:22]
• 5. [Matthew 13:12]
• 6. John 13:10
• 7. John 17:17; [ver. 7; Ephesians 5:26]
• 8. ver. 5-7; 1 John 2:6; [Philippians 1:11; Colossians 1:23]; See John 6:56
• 9. See John 3:15
• 10. Romans 6:5
• 11. ver. 16; Colossians 1:6, 10
• 12. See ver. 2
• 13. Matthew 13:40-42; [Ezekiel 15:4]
• 14. See John 8:31
• 15. See John 14:13
• 16. Isaiah 61:3; Matthew 5:16; 2 Corinthians 9:13; Philippians 1:11
• 17. ver. 5
• 18. See John 5:20
• 19. See John 13:34
• 20. [John 14:15, 23]
• 21. John 8:55; John 17:4; Philippians 2:8
• 22. See John 10:18
• 23. [2 Corinthians 2:3]
• 24. John 3:29; John 16:24; John 17:13; 1 John 1:4; 2 John 12
• 25. See John 13:34
• 26. Romans 5:7, 8; Ephesians 5:2
• 27. See John 10:11
• 28. Luke 12:4
• 29. [ver. 10; Matthew 12:50]
• 30. [ver. 20]
• 31. [John 13:7, 12]
• 32. John 3:32; John 8:26, 40; [John 16:13]
• 33. John 17:26; [Genesis 18:17; 1 Corinthians 2:16; 1 Corinthians 13:9, 10]
• 34. See John 13:18
• 35. [2 John 8]
• 36. [ver. 7]; See John 14:13
• 37. ver. 12

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek bondservants
• [b]. Greek bondservant; also verse 20