Joh 15 | NASB2020 | STEP | “ I am the true vine , and My Father is the vinedresser .

‏ John 15

Jesus Is the Vine--Followers Are Branches

1 “ ^aI am the true vine, and My Father is the ^bvinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ^{▼▼Lit cleans; used to describe pruning}prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 ^dYou are already ^{▼▼I.e., pruned like a branch}clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 ^fRemain in Me, ^{▼▼Or I also remain in you}and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit ^{▼▼Lit from}of itself ^{▼▼Lit if it does not remain}but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him ^{▼▼Lit this one bears} ^kbears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is ^lthrown away like a branch and dries up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, ^mask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My ⁿFather is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^{▼▼Or become My disciples} ^pprove to be My disciples. 9 Just as ^qthe Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love. 10 ^rIf you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as ^sI have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11 ^tThese things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^ujoy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

12 “This is ^vMy commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 ^wGreater love has no one than this, that a person will ^xlay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My ^yfriends if ^zyou do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because ^aaall things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 ^abYou did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^acbear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^adwhatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This ^aeI command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

18 “ ^afIf the world hates you, ^{▼▼Or (command) know that}you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^ahI chose you out of the world, ^aibecause of this the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘ ^ajA slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^akthey will persecute you as well; if they ^alfollowed My word, they will follow yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you ^amon account of My name, ^anbecause they do not know the One who sent Me. 22 ^aoIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^{▼▼I.e., guilt}sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 The one who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 ^aqIf I had not done among them ^arthe works which no one else did, they would not have ^{▼▼I.e., responsibility for their sin}sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. 25 But this has happened so that the word that is written in their ^atLaw will be fulfilled: ‘ ^auThey hated Me for no reason.’

26 “When the ^{▼▼Or Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor} ^awHelper comes, ^axwhom I will send to you from the Father, namely, ^aythe Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, ^azHe will testify about Me, 27 and ^{▼▼Or (command) testify, you as well} ^bbyou are testifying as well, because you have been with Me ^bcfrom the beginning.