John 15:4-27

41Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit 2of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he 3bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not abide in Me, he is 4thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. 7If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, 5ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8My 6Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so 78prove to be My disciples. 9Just as 9the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 1010If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as 11I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 1112These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your 13joy may be made full.

12“This is 14My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 1315Greater love has no one than this, that one 16lay down his life for his friends. 14You are My 17friends if 18you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for 19all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 1620You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and 21bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that 22whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17This 23I command you, that you love one another.

18“24If the world hates you, 25you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but 26I chose you out of the world, 27because of this the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘28A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, 29they will also persecute you; if they 30kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you 31for My name’s sake, 32because they do not know the One who sent Me. 2233If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have 34sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hates Me hates My Father also. 2435If I had not done among them 36the works which no one else did, they would not have 37sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. 25But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their 38Law, ‘39They hated Me without a cause.’

26“When the 4041Helper comes, 42whom I will send to you from the Father, that is 43the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, 44He will testify about Me, 2745and 46you will testify also, because you have been with Me 47from the beginning.