John 15:1-17 - The Vine And The Branches

¹ "I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. ² Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more. ³ You are pruned already because of the teaching that I have given you. ⁴ You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me. ⁶ Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them. ⁷ If you remain united to me and my words remain in your hearts, ask for whatever you please and you shall have it. ⁸ When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.

⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

¹¹ I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete. ¹² The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹³ No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you to do. ¹⁵ I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father. ¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers. ¹⁷ "What I command you to do is to love one another.