John, 15
1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
1. I am the true vine and my Father is the vinegrower.
2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
2. If any of my branches doesn't bear fruit, he breaks it off; and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, that it may bear even more fruit.
3. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
3. You are already made clean by the word I have spoken to you;
4. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
4. live in me as I live in you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself but has to remain part of the vine; so neither can you if you don't remain in me.
5. I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
5. I am the vine and you are the branches. As long as you remain in me and I in you, you bear much fruit; but apart from me you can do nothing.
6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast [them] into the fire, and they are burned.
6. Whoever does not remain in me is thrown away as they do with branches and they wither. Then they are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned.
7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
7. If you remain in me and my words in you, you may ask whatever you want and it will be given to you.
8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
8. My Father is glorified when you bear much fruit: it is then that you become my disciples.
9. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
9. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain in my love.
10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
10. You will remain in my love if you keep my commandments, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
11. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and [that] your joy might be full.
11. I have told you all this, that my own joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
12. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
12. This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you.
13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
13. There is no greater love than this, to give one's life for one's friends;
14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
14. and you are my friends if you do what I command you.
15. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
15. I shall not call you servants any more, because servants do not know what their master is about. Instead I have called you friends, since I have made known to you everything I learned from my Father.
16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
16. You did not choose me; it was I who chose you and sent you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. And everything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
17. These things I command you, that ye love one another.
17. This is my command, that you love one another.
18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
18. If the world hates you, remember that the world hated me before you.
19. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
19. This would not be so if you belonged to the world, because the world loves its own. But you are not of the world since I have chosen you from the world; because of this the world hates you.
20. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
20. Remember what I told you: the servant is not greater than his master; if they persecuted me, they will persecute you, too. Have they kept my teaching? Will they then keep yours?
21. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
21. All this they will do to you for the sake of my name because they do not know the One who sent me.
22. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
22. If I had not come to tell them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
23. Those who hate me hate my Father.
24. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
24. If I had not done among them what no one else has ever done, they would have no sin. But after they have seen all this, they hate me and my Father,
25. But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
25. and the words written in their law become true: They hated me without cause.
26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
26. From the Father, I will send you the Spirit of truth. When this Helper has come from the Father, he will be my witness,
27. And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
27. and you, too, will be my witnesses for you have been with me from the beginning.
