CINXE.COM

<!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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>John 15 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/john/15.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</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">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus the True Vine</p><p class="reg"><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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto 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 cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even 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 have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be fulfilled.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.</p> <p class="hdg">Greater Love has No One than This</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which 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 knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These things I command you, that ye may love one another.</p> <p class="hdg">The Hatred of the World</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. 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 all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He that hateth me hateth 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 which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me: <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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 id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/john/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>