John 15

1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 80:8 · Song 7:12 · Song 8:11 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 5:1 · +18 more

2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.Cross-references: Job 17:9 · Ps 51:7 · Prov 4:18 · Isa 27:9 · Isa 29:19 · Hos 6:3 · +26 more

3You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.Cross-references: John 13:10 · John 17:17 · Eph 5:26 · 1Pet 1:22

4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.Cross-references: Song 8:5 · Isa 27:10 · Ezek 15:2 · Hos 14:8 · Luke 8:15 · John 6:56 · +22 more

5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.Cross-references: Prov 11:30 · Hos 4:8 · Luke 13:6 · John 5:19 · John 9:33 · John 12:24 · +21 more

6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.Cross-references: Job 15:30 · Ps 80:15 · Isa 14:19 · Isa 27:10 · Ezek 15:3 · Ezek 17:9 · +13 more

7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.Cross-references: Deut 6:6 · Job 22:26 · Job 23:12 · Ps 37:4 · Ps 119:11 · Prov 4:4 · +16 more

8“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.Cross-references: Ps 92:12 · Isa 60:21 · Isa 61:3 · Hag 1:8 · Matt 5:16 · Matt 5:44 · +12 more

9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.Cross-references: John 15:11 · John 15:13 · John 17:23 · John 17:26 · Eph 3:18 · 1John 2:28 · +2 more

10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.Cross-references: Isa 42:1 · Matt 3:15 · John 4:34 · John 8:29 · John 12:49 · John 14:15 · +13 more

11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.Cross-references: Isa 53:11 · Isa 62:4 · Jer 32:41 · Jer 33:9 · Zeph 3:17 · Luke 15:5 · +15 more

12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.Cross-references: John 13:34 · Rom 12:10 · Eph 5:2 · 1Thess 3:12 · 1Thess 4:9 · 2Thess 1:3 · +7 more

13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.Cross-references: John 10:11 · John 10:15 · Rom 5:6 · Eph 5:2 · 1John 4:7

14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.Cross-references: 2Chr 20:7 · Song 5:1 · Isa 41:8 · Matt 12:50 · Luke 12:4 · John 2:5 · +6 more

15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.Cross-references: Gen 18:17 · 2Ki 6:8 · Ps 25:14 · Amos 3:7 · Matt 13:11 · Luke 10:23 · +22 more

16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.Cross-references: Gen 18:18 · Ps 71:18 · Ps 78:4 · Ps 145:4 · Prov 11:30 · Isa 27:6 · +49 more

17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.Cross-references: John 15:12 · 1Pet 2:17 · 1John 3:14

18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:8 · Isa 49:7 · Isa 53:3 · Zech 11:8 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:22 · +11 more

19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.Cross-references: Luke 6:32 · John 15:16 · John 17:14 · Eph 1:4 · Eph 2:2 · Titus 3:3 · +8 more

20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:7 · Isa 53:1 · Ezek 3:7 · Matt 10:24 · Luke 2:34 · Luke 6:40 · +13 more

21But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.Cross-references: Ps 69:7 · Isa 66:5 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 10:18 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 10:39 · +18 more

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.Cross-references: Ezek 2:5 · Ezek 33:31 · Luke 12:46 · John 3:18 · John 9:41 · John 12:48 · +8 more

23He who hates me, hates my Father also.Cross-references: John 8:40 · 1John 2:23 · 2John 1:9

24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 5:9 · Ps 81:15 · Prov 8:36 · Matt 9:33 · Matt 11:5 · +25 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’Cross-references: Ps 7:4 · Ps 35:19 · Ps 69:4 · Ps 109:3 · Matt 10:8 · Luke 24:44 · +9 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

26“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.Cross-references: Luke 24:49 · John 8:42 · John 14:16 · John 14:26 · John 16:7 · John 16:13 · +7 more

27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.Cross-references: Mark 1:1 · Luke 1:2 · Luke 24:48 · John 19:35 · John 21:24 · Acts 1:8 · +15 more