The Concordant Literal New Testament

John’s Account

Chapter 15

¹ "I am the true Grapevine, and My Father is the Farmer.
² Every branch in Me bringing forth no fruit, He is taking it away, and every one bringing forth fruit, He is cleansing it, that it may be bringing forth more fruit.
³ "Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴ Remain in Me. I also am in you. According as the branch can not be bringing forth fruit from itself, if it should not be remaining in the grapevine, thus neither you, if you should not be remaining in Me.
⁵ "I am the Grapevine. You are the branches. He who is remaining in Me, and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
⁶ "If anyone should not be remaining in Me, he was cast out as a branch, and it withered. And they are gathering them, and into the fire are they casting them, and they are being burned.
⁷ If ever you should be remaining in Me and My declarations should be remaining in you, whatever you should be wanting, request, and it will be occurring to you.
⁸ In this is My Father glorified, that you may be bringing forth much fruit, and you shall become My disciples.
⁹ "According as the Father loves Me, I, also, love you. Remain in My love.
¹⁰ If ever you should be keeping My precepts, you will be remaining in My love, according as I have kept the precepts of My Father and am remaining in His love.
¹¹ These things have I spoken to you, that My joy should be remaining in you, and your joy may be filled.
¹² "This is My precept, that you be loving one another, according as I love you.
¹³ Greater love than this has no one, that anyone may be laying down his soul for his friends.
¹⁴ You are My friends, if you should be doing whatever I am directing you.
¹⁵ "No longer am I terming you slaves, for the slave is not aware what his lord is doing. Yet I have declared you friends, for all that I hear from My Father I make known to you.
¹⁶ Not you choose Me, but I choose you, and I appoint you, that you may be going away and be bringing forth much fruit, and your fruit may be remaining, that anything whichsoever you should be requesting the Father in My name, He will be giving it to you.
¹⁷ "In these things I am directing you, that you may be loving one another.
¹⁸ If the world is hating you, know that it has hated Me first before you.
¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. Now, seeing that you are not of the world, but I choose you out of the world, therefore the world is hating you.
²⁰ "Remember the word which I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his lord.' If Me they persecute, you they will be persecuting also. If My word they keep, yours also will they be keeping.
²¹ But all these things will they be doing to you because of My name, seeing that they are not acquainted with Him Who sends Me.
²² "If I came not and speak to them, they had no sin. Yet now they have no pretense concerning their sin.
²³ He who is hating Me is hating My Father also.
²⁴ If I do not the works among them which no other one does, they had no sin. Yet now they have seen also, and they have hated Me as well as My Father,
²⁵ but it is that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, that they hate Me gratuitously.
²⁶ "Now, whenever the consoler which I shall be sending you from the Father may be coming, the spirit of truth which is going out from the Father, that will be testifying concerning Me.
²⁷ Now you also are testifying, seeing that, from the beginning, you are with Me.

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