John 15

The Call to Abide and Bear Fruit John 15:4–8

⁴Verse 4. Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. ⁵Verse 5. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶Verse 6. If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷Verse 7. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

⁸Verse 8. “In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Remaining in Jesus' Love John 15:9–11

⁹Verse 9. Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. ¹⁰Verse 10. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. ¹¹Verse 11. I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

The Command to Love One Another John 15:12–17

¹²Verse 12. “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. ¹³Verse 13. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴Verse 14. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵Verse 15. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ¹⁶Verse 16. You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

¹⁷Verse 17. “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Warning of Worldly Opposition John 15:18–21

¹⁸Verse 18. If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹Verse 19. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Verse 20. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹Verse 21. But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

Sin and Rejection of Jesus John 15:22–25

²²Verse 22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³Verse 23. He who hates me, hates my Father also. ²⁴Verse 24. If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. ²⁵Verse 25. But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

The Coming of the Counselor John 15:26–27

²⁶Verse 26. “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. ²⁷Verse 27. You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.