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

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. ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ I no more call you servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: and I have called you friends; for all which I heard of my Father I made known to you. ¹⁶ Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another.