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Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. <A name="6"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned. <A name="8"></a><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, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">No Greater Love<p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. <A name="11"></a><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, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. <A name="13"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. <A name="15"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You are My friends if you do what I command you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This is My command to you: Love one another. <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Hatred of the World<p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. <A name="21"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me. <A name="23"></a><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 be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. <A name="24"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="27"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When the Advocate<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> comes, 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>And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <a href="../john/13.htm#16">John 13:16</a><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> See <a href="../psalms/35.htm#19">Psalm 35:19</a>, <a href="../psalms/38.htm#19">Psalm 38:19</a>, and <a href="../psalms/69.htm#4">Psalm 69:4</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>Comforter</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Helper</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Counselor</i><span class="thin"> </span>; Greek <i>Paraclete</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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