John 15:5-16:3

English Standard Version

⁵ I am the vine; ^(A)you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that ^(B)bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me ^(C)he is thrown away like a branch and withers; ^(D)and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If ^(E)you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ^(F)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ^8 (G)By this my Father is glorified, that you ^(H)bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. ^9 (I)As the Father has loved me, ^(J)so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ^10 (K)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ^(L)I have kept ^(M)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, ^(N)that my joy may be in you, and that ^(O)your joy may be full.

^12 (P)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (Q)Greater love has no one than this, ^(R)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(S)my friends ^(T)if you do what I command you. ^15 (U)No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant ^(V)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(W)all that I have heard from my Father ^(X)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(Y)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(Z)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(AA)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, ^(AB)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18 (AC)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19 (AD)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(AE)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ^(AF)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(AG)they will also persecute you. ^(AH)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But ^(AI)all these things they will do to you ^(AJ)on account of my name, ^(AK)because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(AL)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[b] but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (AM)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ^24 (AN)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(AO)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(AP)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But ^(AQ)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(AR)‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶ “But ^(AS)when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^(AT)he will bear witness about me. ²⁷ And ^(AU)you also will bear witness, ^(AV)because you have been with me ^(AW)from the beginning.

16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. ^2 (AX)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ^(AY)the hour is coming when ^(AZ)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. ³ And they will do these things ^(BA)because they have not known the Father, nor me.