John 14:25-15:17

New King James Version

The Gift of His Peace

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶But ^(A)the ^[a]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will ^(B)send in My name, ^(C)He will teach you all things, and bring to your ^(D)remembrance all things that I said to you. ²⁷^(E)Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸You have heard Me ^(F)say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because ^[b]I said, ^(G)‘I am going to the Father,’ for ^(H)My Father is greater than I.

²⁹“And ^(I)now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, ^(J)for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has ^(K)nothing in Me. ³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father, and ^(L)as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

The True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ²^(M)Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He ^[c]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear ^(N)more fruit. ³^(O)You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴^(P)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much ^(Q)fruit; for without Me you can do ^(R)nothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in Me, ^(S)he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷If you abide in Me, and My words ^(T)abide in you, ^(U)you^[d] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ⁸^(V)By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; ^(W)so you will be My disciples.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹“As the Father ^(X)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰^(Y)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^(Z)that your joy may be full. ¹²^(AA)This is My ^(AB)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³^(AC)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴^(AD)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^(AE)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶^(AF)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(AG)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(AH)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷These things I command you, that you love one another.