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For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> You are my friends if you do what I command.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You are my friends if you do what I command you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> This is my command: Love each other. The World’s Hatred<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">These things I command you, so that you will love one another.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Remember the word that I said to 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 also keep yours.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> Anyone who hates me also hates my Father.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Whoever hates me hates my Father also.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures : ‘They hated me without cause.’<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> “But I will send you the Advocate —the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“But when the Helper 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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1"> And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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