John 15:5-15

5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he ¹bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing *.

6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ²thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ³ask whatever * you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 "My ⁴Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ⁵prove to be My disciples.

9 "Just as ⁶the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

10 "⁷If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as ⁸I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

11 "⁹These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ¹⁰joy may be made full.

Disciples' Relation to Each Other

12 "This is ¹¹My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

13 "¹²Greater love has no one than this, that one ¹³lay down his life for his friends.

14 "You are My ¹⁴friends if ¹⁵you do what I command you.

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, for ¹⁶all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Cross References

• 1. John 15:16
• 2. John 15:2
• 3. Matthew 7:7; John 15:16
• 4. Matthew 5:16
• 5. John 8:31
• 6. John 3:35; John 17:23, 24, 26
• 7. John 14:15
• 8. John 8:29
• 9. John 17:13
• 10. John 3:29
• 11. John 13:34; John 15:17; 1 John 3:23; 2 John 5
• 12. Romans 5:7
• 13. John 10:11
• 14. Luke 12:4
• 15. Matthew 12:50
• 16. John 8:26; John 16:12

Footnotes

• [a] Or "become My disciples"