---
title: John 15
slug: kjv-nt/john-15
createdAt: 2024-09-04T03:03:09.861Z
---

**1 **I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. **2 **Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every *branch* that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. **3 **Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. **4 **Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. **5 **I am the vine, ye *are* the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. **6 **If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast *them* into the fire, and they are burned. **7 **If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. **8 **Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. **9 **As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. **10 **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. **11 **These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and *that* your joy might be full.

**12 **This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

**13 **Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. **14 **Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. **15 **Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. **16 **Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and *that* your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. **17 **These things I command you, that ye love one another.

**18 **If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before *it hated* you. **19 **If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. **20 **Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. **21 **But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. **22 **If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. **23 **He that hateth me hateth my Father also. **24 **If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. **25 **But *this cometh to pass*, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

**26 **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 testify of me: **27 **And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.