John 15 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches

1 “ I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

2Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He prunes, so that it will bear more fruit.

3You are already clean because of the word which I have given you.

4Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in Me.

5I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a branch, and withers and dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

8My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My disciples.

9I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love.

10If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, 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 and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

12 “This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.

13No one has greater love than to lay down his own life for his friends.

14You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.

15I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.

16You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

17This I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

19If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own and would treat you with affection. But you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. And because of this the world hates you.

20Remember that I told you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21But they will do all these things to you for My name’s sake, for they do not know the One who sent Me.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23The one who hates Me also hates My Father.

24If I had not done among them the works (attesting miracles) which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and have hated Me and My Father as well.

25But that the word which has been written in their Law would be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

26 “But when the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, He will testify and bear witness about Me.

27But you will testify also and be My witnesses, because you have been with Me from the beginning.