New Testament · Gospels and Acts

John chapter 15

“ the , and my Father is the .”He every branch in me that doesn’t produce , and he every branch that does produce fruit so it will produce even more.You are already because of the I’ve spoken to you. to me, and I will stay connected to you. A branch can’t produce fruit by itself — it has to stay connected to the vine. Same with you — you can’t produce fruit unless you stay connected to me.“I am the grapevine; you are the . Whoever stays connected to me — and I to them — produces an of fruit. But separated from me, you can’t do anything.”Anyone who doesn’t stay connected to me gets like a dead branch and dries up. People gather those branches, toss them into the fire, and they burn.If you stay connected to me and my words , ask for whatever you want, and it will happen for you.This is how my Father’s — when you produce an abundance of fruit. And this is how you show you’re my .“Just as the Father has me, I have loved you the same way. Stay in my love.”If you do , you will stay in my love — just like I’ve done what my Father says and I stay in his love.“I’ve told you all this so that my will be in you and your joy will be .”“This is what I’m telling you to do: each other the same way I have loved you.”No one has greater love than this — to for .You are the people I love — if you do what I’m telling you to do.I’m not calling you anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. Instead, I’ve called you , because everything I’ve heard from my Father, I’ve made known to you.You didn’t choose me — I chose you. And I you to go out and produce fruit — — so that whatever you ask the Father using my name, he will give it to you.“This is what I’m telling you to do: Love each other.”“If the hates you, just remember — it hated me before it hated you.”If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. But I of the world — that’s why it hates you. You don’t belong to it anymore.Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not above his master.’ If they me, they’ll go after you too. If they took what I said seriously, they’ll take what you say seriously too.But they’ll do all of this to you because of me — because they don’t know .If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of . But now they have no excuse for their failure.Whoever hates me hates my Father too.If I hadn’t done among them that , they wouldn’t be guilty of failure. But now they’ve seen these things — and they still hate both me and my Father.But this happened so that what’s written in would come true: ‘They hated me for no reason.’“When the comes — the one I will send to you from the Father — who comes from the Father — he will .”And you are going to too, because you have been with me .”