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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">SLT</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="../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">Smith's Literal Translation</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<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/27.htm">Isaiah 27:1–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me. <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 loved me, I also 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 ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love. <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 my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These things I command you, that ye 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, know that it has hated me the first of you. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If ye were of the world, the world had loved its own: and because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember the word which I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they expelled me, they will also expel you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But all these will they do to you for my name, for they know not him having 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 had not sin and now they have no pretext for their sin. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He hating me hates my Father also. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I did not the works in them which none other has done, they had not sin: and now have they also seen and hated also me and my Father. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But that the word written in their law might be completed, That they hated me gratuitously.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes 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 testify, for ye are with me from the beginning.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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