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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 Legacy Standard Bible</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="../">LSB</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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/john/15.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">I Am the True Vine</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine-grower.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every <i>branch</i> that bears fruit, He <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>cleans it so that it may bear more fruit.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">You are already <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither <i>can</i> you unless you abide in Me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and <i>so</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>prove to be My disciples.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and <i>that</i> your joy may be complete.</span> <p class="hdg">Jesus’ Commandment Is Love</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">You are My friends if you do what I command you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and <i>that</i> your fruit would abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">This I command you, that you love one another.</span> <p class="hdg">If the World Hates You</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“If the world hates you, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>know that it has hated Me before <i>it hated</i> you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave 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> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">He who hates Me hates My Father also.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">But <i>this happened</i> to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘THEY HATED ME WITHOUT CAUSE.’</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">“When the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and you <i>will</i> bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.</span><A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Prunes<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Pruned like a branch<br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>become My disciples</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or (indicative) <i>you know</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Guilt<br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Guilt<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Gr <i>parakletos</i>, one called alongside as a helper<br><span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i>and bear witness!</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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