Thematic Bible

John 15:1

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman:

John 15:2

every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away, and every one that beareth fruit, He purgeth, that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:3

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

John 15:4

Abide therefore in me, and I will abide in you: for as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, unless it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

John 15:5

I am the vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me, and I in him, beareth much fruit: but without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:6

If any one abide not in me, he is cast out as a useless branch and withereth: and they gather them up, and throw them into the fire, and they are burnt.

John 15:7

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shall be granted you.

John 15:8

Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

John 15:9

As the Father hath loved me, and I have loved you, continue in my love:

John 15:10

and if ye keep my commandments ye will continue in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and continue in his love.

John 15:11

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy in you may continue, and that your joy may be full.

John 15:12

This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

John 15:13

Greater love hath no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends:

John 15:14

and ye are my friends, if ye do what I command you.

John 15:15

I no longer stile you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth: but I have called you friends; for whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

John 15:16

Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you.

John 15:17

These commands I give you, that ye should love one another.

John 15:18

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first.

John 15:19

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 15:20

Remember what I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have observed my word, they will also observe yours.

John 15:21

But all these things will they do unto you, on my account, because they know not Him that sent me.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:23

He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them such works as no other ever did, they had not comparatively had sin: but now they have both seen, and hated, both me and my Father.

John 15:25

But thus it is that the word might be fulfilled, which is written in their law, they hated me without a cause.

John 15:26

But when the comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, (even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,) He shall testify of me.

John 15:27

And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.