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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 Lamsa 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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>I AM the true vine, and my Father is the worker. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he cuts out; and the one which bears fruit, he prunes so that it may bring forth more fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>You have already been pruned because of the word which I have spoken to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Remain with me and I with you. Just as a branch cannot give fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine; even so you cannot, unless you remain with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains with me and I with him, will bear abundant fruit; for without me you can do nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>Unless a man remains with me, he will be cast outside, like a branch which is withered; which they pick up and throw into the fire to be burned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>If you remain with me, and my words remain with you, whatever you ask shall be done for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>In this the Father will be glorified, that you bear abundant fruit, and be my disciples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Just as my Father has loved me, I also have loved you; remain in my love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and I remain in his love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>There is no greater love than this, when a man lays down his life for the sake of his friends. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>You are my friends, if you do everything that I command you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Henceforth I will not call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master does; but I have always called you my friends, because everything that I heard from my Father I made it known to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>You did not choose me, but I chose you, and I have appointed you, that you also should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever you ask my Father in my name, he will give it to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>I command these things to you, so that you love one another.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>If the world hate you, know well that it has hated me before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but you are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; this is why the world hates you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember the word which I said to you, that no servant is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>But they will do all these things to you for the sake of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>If I had not come and spoken to them, they would be without sin; but now they have no excuse for their sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>He who hates me, hates my Father also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>If I had not done works before their eyes, such as no other man has ever done, they would be without sin; but now they have seen and hated me and also my Father, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>So that the word which is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me for no reason.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from my Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from my Father, he will testify concerning me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/john/15-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And you also will testify because you have been with me from the beginning.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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