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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 Amplified 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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">AMP</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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/john/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Jesus Is the Vine--Followers Are Branches</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</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 in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every <i>branch</i> that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for [otherwise] apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken off] branch, and withers <i>and</i> dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. <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 [that is, if we are vitally united and My message lives in your heart], ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>My Father is glorified <i>and</i> honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If you keep My commandments <i>and</i> obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have told you these things so that My joy <i>and</i> delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full <i>and</i> complete <i>and</i> overflowing. <p class="hdg">Disciples’ Relation to Each Other </p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“This is My commandment, that you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>love <i>and</i> unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed <i>and</i> placed <i>and</i> purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit <i>and</i> keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain <i>and</i> be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This [is what] I command you: that you love <i>and</i> unselfishly seek the best for one another. <p class="hdg">Disciples’ Relation to the World</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before <i>it hated</i> you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If you belonged to the world, the world would love [you as] its own <i>and</i> would treat you with affection. But you are not of the world [you no longer belong to it], but I have chosen you out of the world. And because of this the world hates you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember [and continue to remember] that I told 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 [hurtful] things to you for My name’s sake [because you bear My name and are identified with Me], for they do not know the One who 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 [the guilt of their] sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The one who hates Me also hates My Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>If I had not done among them the works (attesting miracles) which no one else [ever] did, they would not have [the guilt of their] sin; but now [the fact is that] they have both seen [these works] and have hated Me [and continue to hate Me] and My Father as well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But [this is so] that the word which has been written in their Law would be fulfilled, ‘THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.’ <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“But when the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor--Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, <i>that is</i> the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, He will testify <i>and</i> bear witness about Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But you will testify also <i>and</i> be My witnesses, because you have been with Me from the beginning.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> The seventh of the memorable “I am” statements. See note 6:35.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> See note v 1.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> See note 13:34.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Gr <i>Paracletos,</i> one called alongside to help.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <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" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>