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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>John 15 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</a> > John 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/14.htm" title="John 14">◄</a> John 15 <a href="../john/16.htm" title="John 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/john/15.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus the True Vine</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Remain 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. </p> <p class="hdg">Greater Love has No One than This</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>No 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“I command these things to you, that you may love one another. </p> <p class="hdg">The Hatred of the World</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He who hates me, hates my Father also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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