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. 15:1 [Jer. 2:21]
• 2. 15:1 [1 Cor. 3:9]
• 3. 15:2 ver. 6; Matt. 3:10; 7:19; [Rom. 11:17; 2 Pet. 1:8]
• 4. 15:2 [Matt. 15:13; Rom. 11:22]
• 5. 15:2 [Matt. 13:12]
• 6. 15:3 ch. 13:10
• 7. 15:3 ch. 17:17; [ver. 7; Eph. 5:26]
• 8. 15:4 ver. 5-7; 1 John 2:6; [Phil. 1:11; Col. 1:23]; See ch. 6:56
• 9. 15:4 See ch. 3:15
• 10. 15:5 Rom. 6:5
• 11. 15:5 ver. 16; Col. 1:6, 10
• 12. 15:6 See ver. 2
• 13. 15:6 Matt. 13:40-42; [Ezek. 15:4]
• 14. 15:7 See ch. 8:31
• 15. 15:7 See ch. 14:13
• 16. 15:8 Isa. 61:3; Matt. 5:16; 2 Cor. 9:13; Phil. 1:11
• 17. 15:8 ver. 5
• 18. 15:9 See ch. 5:20
• 19. 15:9 See ch. 13:34
• 20. 15:10 [ch. 14:15, 23]
• 21. 15:10 ch. 8:55; 17:4; Phil. 2:8
• 22. 15:10 See ch. 10:18
• 23. 15:11 [2 Cor. 2:3]
• 24. 15:11 ch. 3:29; 16:24; 17:13; 1 John 1:4; 2 John 12
• 25. 15:12 See ch. 13:34
• 26. 15:13 Rom. 5:7, 8; Eph. 5:2
• 27. 15:13 See ch. 10:11
• 28. 15:14 Luke 12:4
• 29. 15:14 [ver. 10; Matt. 12:50]
• 30. 15:15 [ver. 20]
• 31. 15:15 [ch. 13:7, 12]
• 32. 15:15 ch. 3:32; 8:26, 40; [ch. 16:13]
• 33. 15:15 ch. 17:26; [Gen. 18:17; 1 Cor. 2:16; 13:9, 10]
• 34. 15:16 See ch. 13:18
• 35. 15:16 [2 John 8]
• 36. 15:16 [ver. 7]; See ch. 14:13
• 37. 15:17 ver. 12

Footnotes

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