John 15

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¹“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. ✦ ²He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. ✦ ³You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. ✦ ⁴Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. ✦ ⁵“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. ✦ ⁶Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. ✦ ⁷But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! ✦ ⁸When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. ✦ ⁹“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. ✦ ¹⁰When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. ✦ ¹¹I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! ✦ ¹²This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. ✦ ¹³There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ✦ ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command. ✦ ¹⁵I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. ✦ ¹⁶You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. ✦ ¹⁷This is my command: Love each other. ✦ ¹⁸“If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. ✦ ¹⁹The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. ✦ ²⁰Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. ✦ ²¹They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me. ✦ ²²They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. ✦ ²³Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. ✦ ²⁴If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father. ✦ ²⁵This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures: ‘They hated me without cause.’ ✦ ²⁶“But I will send you the Advocate—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me. ✦ ²⁷And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry. ✦

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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

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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.

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Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.
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The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.

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Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
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The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
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