John 15

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. ✦ ²Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ✦ ³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ✦ ⁴Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. ✦ ⁵I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ✦ ⁶If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ✦ ⁷If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. ✦ ⁸“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. ✦ ⁹Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. ✦ ¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. ✦ ¹¹I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. ✦ ¹²“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. ✦ ¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ✦ ¹⁴You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. ✦ ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ✦ ¹⁶You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ✦ ¹⁷“I command these things to you, that you may love one another. ✦ ¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. ✦ ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ✦ ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ✦ ²¹But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. ✦ ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ✦ ²³He who hates me, hates my Father also. ✦ ²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. ✦ ²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ ✦ ²⁶“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. ✦ ²⁷You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. ✦

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Concept The True Vine

Where this chapter connects

John 15 ·15 1 Jn 2 ·13 John 14 ·12 John 8 ·11 John 17 ·10 1 Jn 3 ·9 Col 1 ·8 John 13 ·7

Christ at the center

John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.

How John 15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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