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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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Jesus the Real Vine</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_15_1"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.1" class="v43_15_1">1</span>“I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener. </span><span class="v43_15_2"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.2" class="v43_15_2">2</span>He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit. </span><span class="v43_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.3" class="v43_15_3">3</span>You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you. </span><span class="v43_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.4" class="v43_15_4">4</span>Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.5" class="v43_15_5">5</span>“I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me. </span><span class="v43_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.6" class="v43_15_6">6</span>Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned. </span><span class="v43_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.7" class="v43_15_7">7</span>If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it. </span><span class="v43_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.8" class="v43_15_8">8</span>My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit; and in this way you become my disciples. </span><span class="v43_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.9" class="v43_15_9">9</span>I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love. </span><span class="v43_15_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.10" class="v43_15_10">10</span>If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.11" class="v43_15_11">11</span>“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. </span><span class="v43_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.12" class="v43_15_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.15.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. </span><span class="v43_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.13" class="v43_15_13">13</span>The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them. </span><span class="v43_15_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.14" class="v43_15_14">14</span>And you are my friends if you do what I command you. </span><span class="v43_15_15"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.15" class="v43_15_15">15</span>I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father. </span><span class="v43_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.16" class="v43_15_16">16</span>You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name. </span><span class="v43_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.17" class="v43_15_17">17</span>This, then, is what I command you: love one another.</span></p><h3 class="s">The World's Hatred</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.18" class="v43_15_18">18</span>“If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first. </span><span class="v43_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.19" class="v43_15_19">19</span>If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you. </span><span class="v43_15_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.20" class="v43_15_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.15.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too. </span><span class="v43_15_21"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.21" class="v43_15_21">21</span>But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me. </span><span class="v43_15_22"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.22" class="v43_15_22">22</span>They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin. </span><span class="v43_15_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.23" class="v43_15_23">23</span>Whoever hates me hates my Father also. </span><span class="v43_15_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.24" class="v43_15_24">24</span>They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father. </span><span class="v43_15_25"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.25" class="v43_15_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.15.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_15_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.26" class="v43_15_26">26</span>“The Helper will come—the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God and who comes from the Father. I will send him to you from the Father, and he will speak about me. </span><span class="v43_15_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.15.27" class="v43_15_27">27</span>And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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