John 15

MLV(i) 1 I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch which is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch which is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me and I in you. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you if you do not abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you are not able to do anything separate from me. 6 If anyone is not abiding in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned. 7 If you abide in me, and then my words should abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will happen for you. 8 My Father is glorified in this, in order that you may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.
9 Just-as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will be abiding in my love; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love. 11 I have spoken to you these things, in order that my joy may abide in you and in order that your joy should be fulfilled. 12 This is my commandment, in order that you should love one another, just-as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this: in order that someone should lay down his life on behalf of his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you practice as many things as I command you. 15 I call you bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have called you friends, because all the things which I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, in order that you should go and should bring forth fruit and in order that your fruit should abide, that if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he should give it to you. 17 I command you to do these things, in order that you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me first, then you. 19 If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not from the world, but I chose you out of the world, the world is hating you because of this. 20 Remember the word which I said to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also be persecuting you; if they kept my word, they will also be keeping yours. 21 But they will be doing all these things to you because of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they were having no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin. 23 He who hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, then they were having no sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’
26 But whenever the Helper has come, whom I will be sending to you from the Father, who is the Spirit of the truth, who travels from the Father, that one will be testifying concerning me; 27 and you also will be testifying, because you have been with me from the beginning.