John 15
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Jesus the True Vine
1#Isa 5:1–7; 1Co 3:9#“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2#Mt 3:10; 13:12Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3#Jn 13:10; 17:17You are already clean through the word which I have spoken to you. 4#1Jn 2:6; Jn 6:56; Gal 2:20Remain in Me, as I also remain in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in Me.
5#Php 4:13; Jn 15:16“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without Me you can do nothing. 6#Mt 13:41; Jn 15:2If a man does not remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch and withers. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7#Jn 14:13; 15:16If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8#Mt 5:16; Jn 8:31My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9#Jn 17:26“As the Father loved Me, I also loved you. Remain in My love. 10#Jn 14:15; 8:29; 17:4If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11#Jn 17:13; 16:24I have spoken these things to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12#Jn 13:34; 1Jn 3:23This is My commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you. 13#Jn 10:11; 10:15Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14#Mt 12:50; Lk 12:4You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15#Jn 8:26; 15:20I no longer call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I have heard from My Father have I made known to you. 16#Jn 13:18; 6:70You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that the Father may give you whatever you ask Him in My name. 17#Jn 15:12This I command you: that you love one another.
The World’s Hatred
18#1Jn 3:13; Jn 7:7“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19#Jn 15:16If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, the world therefore hates you. 20#Jn 13:16; Mt 10:24Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My words, they will keep yours also. 21#Mt 10:22; Jn 16:3But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22#Jn 9:41; Ro 1:20If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24#Jn 5:36; 10:37If I had not performed among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin. But now have they seen and hated both My Father and Me. 25#Ps 35:19; 69:4But that the word which is written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’#Ps 35:19; 69:4.
26#Jn 14:16–17; 14:26; 16:7“But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me. 27#Lk 24:48; Jn 21:24And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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John 15
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Jesus the Real Vine
1“I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit. 3You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you. 4Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5“I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me. 6Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it. 8My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit; and in this way you become my disciples. 9I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love. 10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
11“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12#Jn 13.34; 15.17; 1 Jn 3.23; 2 Jn 5 My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. 13The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them. 14And you are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name. 17This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
The World's Hatred
18“If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first. 19If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you. 20#Mt 10.24; Lk 6.40; Jn 13.16 Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too. 21But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me. 22They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin. 23Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father. 25#Ps 35.19; 69.4 This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’
26“The Helper will come—the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God and who comes from the Father. I will send him to you from the Father, and he will speak about me. 27And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.
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