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

“I am the true Vine. My Father is the One Who cares for the Vine.

2 e very 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;

He takes away any branch in Me that does not give fruit. Any branch that gives fruit, He cuts it back so it will give more fruit.

3 a lready ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

You are made clean by the words I have spoken to you.

4 r emain 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.

Get your life from Me and I will live in you. No branch can give fruit by itself. It has to get life from the vine. You are able to give fruit only when you have life from Me.

5 ` 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;

I am the Vine and you are the branches. Get your life from Me. Then I will live in you and you will give much fruit. You can do nothing without Me.

6 i f 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;

“If anyone does not get his life from Me, he is cut off like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire and they are burned.

7 i f 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.

If you get your life from Me and My Words live in you, ask whatever you want. It will be done for you.

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

“When you give much fruit, My Father is honored. This shows you are My followers.

9 A ccording as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

I have loved you just as My Father has loved Me. Stay in My love.

10 i f 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;

If you obey My teaching, you will live in My love. In this way, I have obeyed My Father’s teaching and live in His love.

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

I have told you these things so My joy may be in you and your joy may be full. The Christian with Other Christians

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

“This is what I tell you to do: Love each other just as I have loved you.

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

No one can have greater love than to give his life for his friends.

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

You are My friends if you do what I tell you.

15 n o 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.

I do not call you servants that I own anymore. A servant does not know what his owner is doing. I call you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from My Father.

16 ` 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.

You have not chosen Me, I have chosen you. I have set you apart for the work of bringing in fruit. Your fruit should last. And whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you. The Christian and the World

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

“This is what I tell you to do: Love each other.

18 i f the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

If the world hates you, you know it hated Me before it hated you.

19 i f 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.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. You do not belong to the world. I have chosen you out of the world and the world hates you.

20 ` 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;

Remember I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his owner.’ If they made it very hard for Me, they will make it very hard for you also. If they obeyed My teachings, they will obey your teachings also.

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

They will do all these things to you because you belong to Me. They do not know My Father Who sent Me.

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

“I have come and have spoken to them so they are guilty of sin. But now they have no reason to give for keeping their sin any longer.

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

Whoever hates Me, hates My Father also.

24 i f 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;

I have done things among them which no one else has done so they are guilty of sin. But now they have seen these things and have hated Me and My Father.

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

This happened as their Law said it would happen, ‘They hated Me without a reason.’

26 ` 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;

“The Helper (Holy Spirit) will tell about Me when He comes. I will send Him to you from the Father. He is the Spirit of Truth and comes from the Father.

27 a nd ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

You will also tell of Me because you have been with Me from the beginning.