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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 BLB</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/john/15.htm" width="100%" height="32" 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">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus the True Vine</p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am the true vine and My Father is the vinedresser. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away; and every one bearing fruit, He prunes it that it may bear more fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Already you are clean by reason of the word that I have spoken to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither you, unless you abide in Me. </p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine; you <i>are</i> the branches. The <i>one</i> abiding in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are able to do nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown out like the branch and is dried up, and they gather them and cast <i>them</i> into the fire, and it is burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and to you it will come to pass. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit, and you shall be My disciples. </p><p class="hdg">No Greater Love</p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. Abide in My Love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you and your joy may be full. </p><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 loved you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. </p><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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because all things 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 did not chose Me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and you should bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, so that whatever you might ask the Father in My name, He may give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These things I command you, that you love one another. </p><p class="hdg">The Hatred of the World</p><p class="red"><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 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 <i>you</i> <i>as</i> its own; but because you are not of the world but I chose you out of the world, on account of this, the world hates you. </p><p class="red"><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 master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But they will do all these things against you on account of My name, because they have not known the <i>One</i> having 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. </p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The <i>one</i> hating Me hates My Father also. <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 other has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But <i>this is</i> that the word having been written in their Law may be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me without cause.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Psalms 35:19; 69:4">a</a></span> </p><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes forth from the Father, He will bear witness concerning Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And you also bear witness, because you are with Me from <i>the</i> beginning.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnote">Psalms 35:19; 69:4</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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