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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"><title>John 15 Mace New Testament</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" 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src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus the True Vine<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am the genuine vine, and my father is the vintager. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he takes away: as for the branch that bears fruit, he prunes it clean, to make it more fruitful. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>you are already clean by the instructions I have given you. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>be attach'd to me, and I shall be so to you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, except it be attach'd to the vine: so neither can you, except you continue attach'd to me. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine, you are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for independent of me ye can do nothing. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if a man abide not in me, he is cast away as withered branches that are gather'd up to be thrown into the fire, where they are burned. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and you shall obtain it. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>my father will be honour'd by your bearing much fruit, and you will have the honour of being my disciples. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">No Greater Love<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>as the father has loved me, and I have loved you: so do you persevere in your love to me. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These things have I spoken to you, that you might have some present comfort, and that hereafter your joy might be compleat.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>you will be my friends, if you do what I have commanded you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>henceforth I do not treat you as servants; for the servant is unacquainted with his master's affairs: but I have treated you as friends; for what I have learnt of my father, I have communicated to you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>it was not you that chose me, but I that chose you, and establish'd you, that your travels may be fruitful, and your fruit be lasting: so that whatever ye shall ask of the father for my sake, he will give it you. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Above all I enjoin you, to love one another.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Hatred of the World<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you. <A name="20"></a><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, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>remember what I told you, "the servant is not greater than his master." if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have been spies upon my discourse, they will be so upon yours. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>but all these things will they do unto you, out of hatred to my name, because they know not him that sent me. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>if I had not appear'd, and inform'd them, they would have been innocent: but now they have no excuse for their sin. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>he that hateth me, hateth my father also. <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 such works as no other ever did, they had been innocent: but though they have seen them, yet they hate both me and my father. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>so that the passage is fulfilled that is written in their law, "they hated me without a cause."<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>but when the advocate is come, whom I will send to you from the father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the father, he shall testify of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 16" 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