Bible Gateway passage: John 15 - New International Version (2024)

The Vine and the Branches

15“I am^(A) the true vine,^(B) and my Father is the gardener. ²He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,^(C) while every branch that does bear fruit^(D) he prunes^[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. ³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.^{(E) 4}Remain in me, as I also remain in you.^(F) No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

⁵“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;^(G) apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.^{(H) 7}If you remain in me^(I) and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.^{(J) 8}This is to my Father’s glory,^(K) that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.^(L)

⁹“As the Father has loved me,^(M) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰If you keep my commands,^(N) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^{(O) 12}My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^{(P) 13}Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^{(Q) 14}You are my friends^(R) if you do what I command.^{(S) 15}I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.^{(T) 16}You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you^(U) so that you might go and bear fruit^(V)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.^{(W) 17}This is my command: Love each other.^(X)

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸“If the world hates you,^(Y) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^(Z) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^{(AA) 20}Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[b](AB) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(AC) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹They will treat you this way because of my name,^(AD) for they do not know the one who sent me.^{(AE) 22}If I had not come and spoken to them,^(AF) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(AG) 23}Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(AH) they would not be guilty of sin.^(AI) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(AJ) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[c](AK)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶“When the Advocate^(AL) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^(AM)—the Spirit of truth^(AN) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^{(AO) 27}And you also must testify,^(AP) for you have been with me from the beginning.^(AQ)

Footnotes

1. John 15:2 The Greek for he prunes also means he cleans.
2. John 15:20 John 13:16
3. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

Cross references

1. John 15:1 : S Jn 6:35
2. John 15:1 : Ps 80:8-11; Isa 5:1-7
3. John 15:2 : ver 6; S Mt 3:10
4. John 15:2 : Ps 92:14; Mt 3:8; 7:20; Gal 5:22; Eph 5:9; Php 1:11
5. John 15:3 : Jn 13:10; 17:17; Eph 5:26
6. John 15:4 : S Jn 6:56
7. John 15:5 : ver 16
8. John 15:6 : ver 2; Eze 15:4; S Mt 3:10
9. John 15:7 : ver 4; S Jn 6:56
10. John 15:7 : S Mt 7:7
11. John 15:8 : S Mt 9:8
12. John 15:8 : Jn 8:31
13. John 15:9 : Jn 17:23, 24, 26
14. John 15:10 : S Jn 14:15
15. John 15:11 : S Jn 3:29
16. John 15:12 : ver 17; S Jn 13:34
17. John 15:13 : Ge 44:33; Jn 10:11; Ro 5:7, 8
18. John 15:14 : Job 16:20; Pr 18:24; Lk 12:4
19. John 15:14 : Mt 12:50
20. John 15:15 : Jn 8:26
21. John 15:16 : ver 19; Jn 13:18
22. John 15:16 : ver 5
23. John 15:16 : S Mt 7:7
24. John 15:17 : ver 12
25. John 15:18 : Isa 66:5; Jn 7:7; 1Jn 3:13
26. John 15:19 : ver 16
27. John 15:19 : Jn 17:14
28. John 15:20 : S Jn 13:16
29. John 15:20 : 2Ti 3:12
30. John 15:21 : Isa 66:5; Mt 5:10, 11; 10:22; Lk 6:22; Ac 5:41; 1Pe 4:14; Rev 2:3
31. John 15:21 : Jn 16:3
32. John 15:22 : Eze 2:5; 3:7
33. John 15:22 : Jn 9:41; Ro 1:20; 2:1
34. John 15:24 : Jn 5:36
35. John 15:24 : Jn 9:41
36. John 15:25 : S Jn 10:34
37. John 15:25 : Ps 35:19; 69:4; 109:3
38. John 15:26 : Jn 14:16
39. John 15:26 : Jn 14:26; 16:7
40. John 15:26 : S Jn 14:17
41. John 15:26 : 1Jn 5:7
42. John 15:27 : S Lk 24:48; Jn 21:24; 1Jn 1:2; 4:14
43. John 15:27 : S Lk 1:2