1 “ I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

2 E very branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

3 Y ou are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

4 A bide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

5 I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

6 I f anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

7 I f you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

8 M y Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

9 J ust as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

10 I f you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

11 T hese things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

12 “ This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

13 G reater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

14 Y ou are My friends if you do what I command you.

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

15 N o longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

16 Y ou did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

17 T his I command you, that you love one another. Disciples’ Relation to the World

`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

18 “ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

19 I f you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

20 R emember the word that I said to you, ‘ A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

21 B ut all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

22 I f I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

23 H e who hates Me hates My Father also.

`He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

24 I f I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

25 B ut they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘ They hated Me without a cause.’

but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

26 “ When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,

`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

27 a nd you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.