Joh 15 | ISV | STEP | Jesus the True Vine“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.

John 15

1 Jesus the True Vine

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that does not produce fruit, and he cleanses every branch that does produce fruit so that it might produce more fruit.Matt 15:13 3 You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.John 13:10; 17:17; Eph 5:26; 1Pet 1:22

4 “Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.Col 1:23; 1John 2:6 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him ^{▼▼Lit. and I in him} produces much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.Hos 14:8; Phil 1:11; 4:13 6 Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. People gather such branches ^{▼▼Lit. They gather them} and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.Matt 3:10; 7:19 7 If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and it will be yours.John 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23 8 This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and prove to be my disciples.Matt 5:16; John 8:31; 13:35; Phil 1:11 9 Just as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.John 14:15, 21, 23 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.John 16:24; 17:13; 1John 1:4

12 “This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.John 13:34; 1Thes 4:9; 1Pet 4:8; 1John 3:11; 4:21 13 No one shows ^{▼▼Lit. has} greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.John 10:11, 15; Rom 5:7-8; Eph 5:2; 1John 3:16 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.Matt 12:50; John 14:15, 23 15 I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.Gen 18:17; John 17:26; Acts 20:27

16 “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, ^{▼▼Lit. produce fruit, and your fruit is to last} so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.Matt 28:19; Mark 16:15; John 1:7; 6:70; 13:18; 14:13; Col 1:6; 1John 4:10, 19 17 I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another.”John 15:12

18 The World's Hatred“If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.1John 3:1, 13 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, ^{▼▼Lit. out of the world} the world hates you.John 17:14; 1John 4:5 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.Ezek 3:7; Matt 10:24; Luke 6:40; John 13:16 21 They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.Matt 10:22; 24:9; John 16:3 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.John 9:41; Rom 1:20; James 4:17 23 The person who hates me also hates my Father.1John 2:23 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.John 3:2; 7:31; 9:32 25 But this happened so that ^{▼▼Lit. But so that} the word written in their law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me for no reason.’ ^{▼▼Ps 35:19; 69:4}Ps 35:19; 69:4

26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.Luke 24:49; John 14:17, 26; Acts 2:33; 1John 5:6 27 You will testify also, because you have been with me from the beginning.Luke 1:2; 24:48; Acts 1:8, 21-22; 2:32; 3:15; 5:32; 10:39; 13:31; 1Pet 5:1; 2Pet 1:16; 1John 1:1-2