Thematic Bible
John 15:1 (show verse)
"I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
John 15:2 (show verse)
He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
John 15:3 (show verse)
You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
John 15:4 (show verse)
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
John 15:5 (show verse)
"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
John 15:6 (show verse)
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
John 15:7 (show verse)
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.
John 15:8 (show verse)
My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.
John 15:9 (show verse)
"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.
John 15:10 (show verse)
If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
John 15:11 (show verse)
I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.
John 15:12 (show verse)
My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.
John 15:13 (show verse)
No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.
John 15:14 (show verse)
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:15 (show verse)
I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
John 15:16 (show verse)
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
John 15:17 (show verse)
This I command you -- to love one another.
John 15:18 (show verse)
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
John 15:19 (show verse)
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
John 15:20 (show verse)
Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
John 15:21 (show verse)
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
John 15:22 (show verse)
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
John 15:23 (show verse)
The one who hates me hates my Father too.
John 15:24 (show verse)
If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
John 15:25 (show verse)
Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'
John 15:26 (show verse)
When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father -- he will testify about me,
John 15:27 (show verse)
and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.