John 15:1-13 ▼

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

2 Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away: and every one bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it might bear more fruit.

3 Already are ye clean, through the word which I have spoken to you.

4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, if it remain not in the vine; so neither ye, if ye remain not in me.

5 I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

6 If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned.

7 If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.

8 In this was my Father honoured, that ye should bear much fruit: and ye shall be disciples to me.

9 As the Father loved me, I also loved you: remain in my love.

10 If ye keep my commands, ye shall remain in my love; as I have kept my Father's commands, and remain in his love.

11 These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and your joy might be completed.

12 This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.

13 Greater love than this has none, that any lay down his life for his friends.