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John · Chapter 15

John 15

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Jesus the True Vine

(Isaiah 27:1–13)

1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

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.

3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

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.

7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

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

No Greater Love

9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

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

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

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

14You are My friends if you do what I command you.

15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

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.

17This is My command to you: Love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

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.

20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.*

21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

24If 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.

25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’*

26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.*

27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

Source notes

  1. 15:20 John 13:16 Read John 13:16
  2. 15:25 See Psalms 35:19, Psalms 38:19, and Psalms 69:4. Read Psalms 35:19 Read Psalms 38:19 Read Psalms 69:4
  3. 15:26 Or Comforter or Helper or Counselor; Greek Paraclete

Old Testament references

References from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Text from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 35:19

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

Psalms 38:19

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

Psalms 69:4

Those 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.

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

Genesis 49:11

He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Psalms 80:8

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

Psalms 80:9

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

Psalms 80:10

The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Psalms 80:11

It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

Psalms 80:12

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Psalms 80:13

The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

Psalms 80:14

Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

Psalms 80:15

the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

Psalms 80:16

Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Psalms 80:17

Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.

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