John, 15

1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

1. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

2. Every branch in me that bears no fruit he cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to make it bear even more.

2. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

3. You are clean already, by means of the word that I have spoken to you.

3. You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.

4. Remain in me, as I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, unless it remains part of the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

4. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

5. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty; for cut off from me you can do nothing.

5. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

6. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a branch -- and withers; these branches are collected and thrown on the fire and are burnt.

6. If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.

7. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for whatever you please and you will get it.

7. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

8. It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit and be my disciples.

8. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.

9. I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

9. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

10. 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.

10. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

11. I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.

11. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

12. This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.

12. "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

13. No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.

13. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14. You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

14. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

15. I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.

15. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

16. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name.

16. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17. My command to you is to love one another.

17. This I command you, to love one another.

18. If the world hates you, you must realise that it hated me before it hated you.

18. "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you do not belong to the world, because my choice of you has drawn you out of the world, that is why the world hates you.

19. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20. Remember the words I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours as well.

20. Remember the word that I said to you, `A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

21. But it will be on my account that they will do all this to you, because they do not know the one who sent me.

21. But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.

22. If I had not come, if I had not spoken to them, they would have been blameless; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.

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

23. Anyone who hates me hates my Father.

23. He who hates me hates my Father also.

24. If I had not performed such works among them as no one else has ever done, they would be blameless; but as it is, in spite of what they have seen, they hate both me and my Father.

24. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

25. But all this was only to fulfil the words written in their Law: They hated me without reason.

25. It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, `They hated me without a cause.'

26. When the Paraclete comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who issues from the Father, he will be my witness.

26. But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me;

27. And you too will be witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.

27. and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.