[English Bible Study] John Chapter 15

Jn. 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

Jn. 15:2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while

every branch that does bear fruit he prunes [The Greek for

prunes also means cleans.] so that it will be even more

fruitful.

Jn. 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to

you.

Jn. 15:4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear

fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear

fruit unless you remain in me.

Jn. 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me

and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can

do nothing.

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Jn. 15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is

thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up,

thrown into the fire and burned.

Jn. 15:7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask

whatever you wish, and it will be given you.

Jn. 15:8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit,

showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Jn. 15:9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now

remain in my love.

Jn. 15:10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as

I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

Jn. 15:11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that

your joy may be complete.

Jn. 15:12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

Jn. 15:13 Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for

his friends.

Jn. 15:14 You are my friends if you do what I command.

Jn. 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not

know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you

friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have

made known to you.

Jn. 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you

to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last. Then the Father will

give you whatever you ask in my name.

Jn. 15:17 This is my command: Love each other.

Jn. 15:18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

Jn. 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.

As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen

you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

Jn. 15:20 Remember the words I spoke to you: `No servant is greater

than his master.’ [John 13:16] If they persecuted me, they

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will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will

obey yours also.

Jn. 15:21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do

not know the One who sent me.

Jn. 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be

guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their

sin.

Jn. 15:23 He who hates me hates my Father as well.

Jn. 15:24 If I had not done among them what no-one else did, they

would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these

miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

Jn. 15:25 But this is to fulfil what is written in their Law: `They hated

me without reason.’ [Psalms 35:19; 69:4]

Jn. 15:26 “When the Counsellor comes, whom I will send to you from

the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father,

he will testify about me.

Jn. 15:27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from

the beginning.