{"book":"John","slug":"john","ch":15,"genre":"prose","sub":"The Gospel according to John","prev":"john/14","next":"john/16","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[“] I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.","f":[],"h":"Jesus the True Vine","style":"red"},{"v":2,"t":"He 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.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"Remain 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.","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"I 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.","f":[],"style":"red"},{"v":6,"t":"If 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.","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"This [is to] My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, [proving] yourselves to be My disciples.","f":[]},{"v":9,"t":"As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.","f":[],"h":"No Greater Love","style":"red"},{"v":10,"t":"If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.","f":[],"style":"red"},{"v":13,"t":"Greater love has no one than this, that [he] lay down his life for his friends.","f":[]},{"v":14,"t":"You are My friends if you do what I command you.","f":[],"style":"red"},{"v":15,"t":"No 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.","f":[]},{"v":16,"t":"You {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.","f":[]},{"v":17,"t":"This is My command to you: Love one another.","f":[]},{"v":18,"t":"If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me [first].","f":[],"h":"The Hatred of the World","style":"red"},{"v":19,"t":"If 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.","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"Remember 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.","f":["John 13:16"],"style":"red"},{"v":21,"t":"But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the [One who] sent Me.","f":[]},{"v":22,"t":"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.","f":[]},{"v":23,"t":"Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.","f":[],"style":"red"},{"v":24,"t":"If 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.","f":[]},{"v":25,"t":"But [this is] to fulfill [what] is written in their Law:‘ They hated Me without reason.’","f":["See Psalm 35:19, Psalm 38:19, and Psalm 69:4."]},{"v":26,"t":"When 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.","f":["Or Comforter or Helper or Counselor; Greek Paraclete"],"style":"red"},{"v":27,"t":"And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from [the] beginning.[’’]","f":[]}]}