John 15

²¹I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

²In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

³I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

⁹For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

²¹Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

⁸You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

⁹You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

²On that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

¹⁰The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

¹¹No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

¹³But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

¹⁹Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

⁸This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

⁷So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

⁸‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

¹⁷Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

²⁶to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

²²Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

¹⁰Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”

⁶Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

²⁰I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

³¹So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

⁹Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.

⁵⁶Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

⁵I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

⁶If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

¹⁰so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

³⁰The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

⁸For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

¹⁹Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

⁷For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

⁸But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

⁴¹The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.

²He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

¹⁰The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

²⁰If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

⁴Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹³And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

²²and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

⁷Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

¹⁶In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

³¹So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

¹¹filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹⁰Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

¹¹You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will produce thanksgiving to God.

⁵I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

¹²The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

²³I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

²⁴Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

²⁶And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

²⁸And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

⁵and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

¹¹I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

¹⁵If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

²¹Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

²²and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

⁵But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

²¹It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

²⁹He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

¹³Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹³But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

²⁴Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

⁸Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

⁴We write these things so that our joy may be complete.

³³I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

²¹And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

⁸Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

³⁴A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

²and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

¹⁰Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

²³And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

²and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

⁶For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

⁷Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

¹⁵just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

⁵⁰For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

³For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

²³And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

²¹Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

¹⁵If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

¹⁷If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

¹⁴The Lord confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.

⁹Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

¹⁰But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

¹¹He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

²³And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

²⁶the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.

¹This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

⁶“Ah, Lord God,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

¹⁹If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

¹⁰For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

¹⁵From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

¹⁹We love because He first loved us.

¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

¹²This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

¹⁵Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

¹⁷Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

¹³So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

²²Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

¹³You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

²⁰Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

²²You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

⁴You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

⁵They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

¹⁴I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁵I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

⁴For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

⁵He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

³For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

⁴But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

¹²Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

¹⁶Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

²⁴A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

⁷But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

¹²We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

⁹persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

²²You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

³They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

¹⁹“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

¹⁸On My account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

⁹Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

³Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.

⁴¹“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

¹⁷Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

³⁰Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

²⁰For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

⁴⁸There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

³¹So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

³²Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

⁴⁰But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

⁴¹You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

²³Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

⁹Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.

⁹Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

³⁶But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

³²But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”

³¹Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”

³⁷If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.

³²Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.

³They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

⁴Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

¹⁹Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

⁴⁴Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

⁷Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

²¹I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

²⁶But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

¹⁷the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

¹³However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

¹⁴He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

³²We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

³²God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

³³Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

⁸And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.

¹⁴And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

²⁴This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who has written them down. And we know that his testimony is true.

³⁹We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,

⁴⁰God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen—

⁴⁸You are witnesses of these things.

¹¹The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”

²just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

³Therefore, having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,