Juan 15
Nueva Biblia Viva
Jesús, la vid verdadera
15 »Yo soy la vid verdadera, y mi Padre es el que la cultiva. 2 Si alguna de mis ramas no da uvas, la corta; pero a todas las ramas que dan fruto, las poda para que den todavía más fruto.
3 »Ustedes ya están limpios a causa de la palabra que les he dado. 4 Sigan unidos a mí, y yo seguiré unido a ustedes. Así como una rama no puede dar fruto por sí misma, separada de la vid, así tampoco ustedes pueden dar fruto si están separados de mí.
5 »Yo soy la vid y ustedes son las ramas. El que está unido a mí, como yo estoy unido a él, dará mucho fruto. Si están separados de mí no pueden hacer nada. 6 El que no está unido a mí lo echan fuera y se seca. Así como le pasa a las ramas que se recogen, se echan al fuego y se queman. 7 Si ustedes siguen unidos a mí y mis palabras permanecen en ustedes, pueden pedir lo que quieran y se les dará. 8 Mi Padre es glorificado cuando ustedes dan mucho fruto y de esa manera muestran que son mis discípulos.
9 »Así como el Padre me ama a mí, así también yo los amo a ustedes. No se aparten de mi amor. 10 Si obedecen mis mandamientos, no se apartarán de mi amor, así como yo obedezco los mandamientos de mi Padre y su amor no se aparta de mí. 11 Les digo esto para que también tengan mi alegría y así su alegría sea completa. 12 Y mi mandamiento es este: que se amen unos a otros como yo los amo. 13 Nadie tiene más amor que el que da la vida por sus amigos. 14 Ustedes son mis amigos si hacen lo que yo les mando. 15 Ya no les llamo sirvientes, porque el sirviente no sabe lo que hace su amo. Ahora los llamo amigos, porque les he enseñado todo lo que he oído decir a mi Padre. 16 Ustedes no me escogieron a mí, sino que yo los escogí a ustedes, y los he mandado para que vayan y den fruto, un fruto que dure para siempre. Así el Padre les dará todo lo que le pidan en mi nombre. 17 Esto es lo que les mando: que se amen unos a otros.
Jesús y sus discípulos aborrecidos por el mundo
18 »No se les olvide que si el mundo los odia, a mí me odió antes que a ustedes. 19 Si ustedes fueran del mundo, el mundo los querría como quiere a los que son suyos. Pero ustedes no son del mundo, porque yo los escogí de entre los que son del mundo. Por eso el mundo los odia. 20 Recuerden lo que les dije: “Ningún sirviente es más que su amo”. Así que, si a mí me han perseguido, también a ustedes los perseguirán. Y si han obedecido mis palabras, también obedecerán las de ustedes. 21 Les harán todo esto por causa de mi nombre, porque ellos no conocen al que me envió. 22 Ellos no serían culpables de pecado, si yo no hubiera venido ni les hubiera hablado. Pero ahora no tienen disculpa por su pecado. 23 El que me odia a mí, también odia a mi Padre. 24 Ellos no serían culpables de pecado, si yo no hubiera hecho entre ellos las cosas que ningún otro ha hecho. Pero ya las han visto, y a pesar de eso, me odian a mí y a mi Padre. 25 Pero esto pasa así, para que se cumpla lo que está escrito en la ley de ellos: “Me odiaron sin motivo”.
26 »Yo les enviaré de parte del Padre al Consolador, el Espíritu de verdad que viene del Padre, él les hablará acerca de mí. 27 Y ustedes también hablarán acerca de mí porque han estado conmigo desde el principio.
John 15
1599 Geneva Bible
15 1 By the parable of the vine, 2 and the branches, 5, 6 he declareth how the disciples may bear fruit. 12, 17 He commendeth mutual love. 18 He exhorteth them to bear afflictions patiently, 20 by his own example.
1 I [a]am that true vine, and my Father is that husbandman.
2 (A)Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he taketh away: and everyone that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 (B)Now are ye clean through the word, which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you: as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am that vine: ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me can ye do nothing.
6 (C)If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and withereth: and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burn.
7 (D)[b]If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shall be done to you.
8 [c]Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples.
9 [d]As the father hath loved me, so have I loved you: [e]continue in that my love.
10 If ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 (E)This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love than this hath no man, when any man bestoweth his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 [f]Henceforth call I you not servants: for the servant knoweth not what his master doeth: but I have called you friends: for all things that I have heard of my Father, have I made known to you.
16 [g]Ye [h]have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, (F)that ye go and bring forth fruits, and that your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my Name, he may give it you.
17 These things command I you, that ye love one another.
18 [i]If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, (G)The servant is not greater than his master. (H)If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 [j]But (I)all these things will they do unto you for my Name’s sake, because they have not known him that sent me.
22 [k]If I had not come and spoken unto them, they should not have had sin: but now have they no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done works among them which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen, and have hated both me, and my Father.
25 But it is that the word might be fulfilled, that is written in their [l]Law, (J)They hated me without a cause.
26 [m]But when that Comforter shall come, (K)whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth of the Father, he shall testify of me.
27 And ye shall witness also, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Footnotes
- John 15:1 We are of nature dry and fit for nothing but the fire: Therefore that we may live and be fruitful, we must first be grafted into Christ, as it were into a vine by the Father’s hand: and then be daily shred with a continual meditation of the word and the cross; otherwise it shall not avail any man at all to have been grafted, unless he cleave fast unto the vine, and so draw juice out of it.
- John 15:7 He abideth in Christ, which resteth in his doctrine, and therefore bringeth forth good fruit: And the Father will deny such an one nothing.
- John 15:8 As who would say, Herein shall my Father be glorified, and herein also shall you be my disciples, if you bring forth much fruit.
- John 15:9 The love of the Father towards the Son, and of the Son towards us, and ours towards God and our neighbor, are joined together with an inseparable knot: and there is nothing more sweet and pleasant than it is. Now this love showeth itself by its effects: a most perfect example whereof, Christ himself exhibited unto us.
- John 15:9 That is, in that love, wherewith I love you: which love is on both parts.
- John 15:15 The doctrine of the Gospel (as it is uttered by Christ’s own mouth) is a most perfect and absolute declaration of the counsel of God, which pertaineth to our salvation, and is committed unto the Apostles.
- John 15:16 Christ is the author and preserver of the ministry of the Gospel, even to the world’s end, but the ministers have above all things need of prayer and brotherly love.
- John 15:16 This place teacheth us plainly, that our salvation cometh from the only favor and gracious goodness of the everlasting God towards us, and of nothing that we do or can deserve.
- John 15:18 It ought not only not to fear, but rather confirm the faithful ministers of Christ, when they shall be hated of the world as their Master was.
- John 15:21 The hatred that the world beareth against Christ, proceedeth of the blockishness of the mind, which notwithstanding is voluntary blind, so that the world can pretend no excuse to cover their fault.
- John 15:22 As who would say, If I had not come, these men would not have stuck to have said still before God’s judgment seat, that they are religious, and void of sin: but seeing I came to them, and they clean refuse me, they can have no cloak for their wickedness.
- John 15:25 Sometime by this word, Law, are meant the five books of Moses, but in this place, the whole Scripture: for the place alleged is in the Psalms.
- John 15:26 Against the rage of the wicked, we shall stand surely by the inward testimony of the holy Ghost: But the holy Ghost speaketh no otherwise, than he spake by the mouth of the Apostles.
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