John 15:5-15

5 I am the vine; ¹you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that ²bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

6 If anyone does not abide in me ³he is thrown away like a branch and withers; ⁴and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

7 If ⁵you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ⁶ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 ⁷By this my Father is glorified, that you ⁸bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

9 ⁹As the Father has loved me, ¹⁰so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

10 ¹¹If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ¹²I have kept ¹³my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

11 These things I have spoken to you, ¹⁴that my joy may be in you, and that ¹⁵your joy may be full.

12 ¹⁶“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13 ¹⁷Greater love has no one than this, ¹⁸that someone lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are ¹⁹my friends ²⁰if you do what I command you.

15 ²¹No longer do I call you servants, ^[a] for the servant^{[b] 22}does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ²³all that I have heard from my Father ²⁴I have made known to you.

Cross References

• 1. 15:5 Rom. 6:5
• 2. 15:5 ver. 16; Col. 1:6, 10
• 3. 15:6 See ver. 2
• 4. 15:6 Matt. 13:40-42; [Ezek. 15:4]
• 5. 15:7 See ch. 8:31
• 6. 15:7 See ch. 14:13
• 7. 15:8 Isa. 61:3; Matt. 5:16; 2 Cor. 9:13; Phil. 1:11
• 8. 15:8 ver. 5
• 9. 15:9 See ch. 5:20
• 10. 15:9 See ch. 13:34
• 11. 15:10 [ch. 14:15, 23]
• 12. 15:10 ch. 8:55; 17:4; Phil. 2:8
• 13. 15:10 See ch. 10:18
• 14. 15:11 [2 Cor. 2:3]
• 15. 15:11 ch. 3:29; 16:24; 17:13; 1 John 1:4; 2 John 12
• 16. 15:12 See ch. 13:34
• 17. 15:13 Rom. 5:7, 8; Eph. 5:2
• 18. 15:13 See ch. 10:11
• 19. 15:14 Luke 12:4
• 20. 15:14 [ver. 10; Matt. 12:50]
• 21. 15:15 [ver. 20]
• 22. 15:15 [ch. 13:7, 12]
• 23. 15:15 ch. 3:32; 8:26, 40; [ch. 16:13]
• 24. 15:15 ch. 17:26; [Gen. 18:17; 1 Cor. 2:16; 13:9, 10]

Footnotes

• [a] 15:15 Greek 'bondservants'
• [b] 15:15 Greek 'bondservant'; also verse 20