John 14:15-15:20

English Standard Version

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

^15 (A)“If you love me, you will ^(B)keep my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another ^(C)Helper,^[a] to be with you forever, ¹⁷ even ^(D)the Spirit of truth, ^(E)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and ^(F)will be^[b] in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(G)I will come to you. ^19 (H)Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ^(I)you will see me. ^(J)Because I live, you also will live. ^20 (K)In that day you will know that ^(L)I am in my Father, and ^(M)you in me, and ^(N)I in you. ^21 (O)Whoever has my commandments and ^(P)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^(Q)he who loves me ^(R)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ^(S)manifest myself to him.” ^22 (T)Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it ^(U)that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered him, ^(V)“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^(W)we will come to him and ^(X)make our home with him. ²⁴ Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And ^(Y)the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the ^(Z)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(AA)whom the Father will send in my name, ^(AB)he will teach you all things and ^(AC)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ^27 (AD)Peace I leave with you; ^(AE)my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(AF)Let not your hearts be troubled, neither ^(AG)let them be afraid. ^28 (AH)You heard me say to you, ^(AI)‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ^(AJ)am going to the Father, for ^(AK)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And ^(AL)now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for ^(AM)the ruler of this world is coming. ^(AN)He has no claim on me, ³¹ but I do ^(AO)as the Father has commanded me, ^(AP)so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the ^(AQ)true vine, and my Father is ^(AR)the vinedresser. ^2 (AS)Every branch in me that does not bear fruit ^(AT)he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, ^(AU)that it may bear more fruit. ³ Already ^(AV)you are clean ^(AW)because of the word that I have spoken to you. ^4 (AX)Abide ^(AY)in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine; ^(AZ)you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that ^(BA)bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me ^(BB)he is thrown away like a branch and withers; ^(BC)and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If ^(BD)you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ^(BE)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ^8 (BF)By this my Father is glorified, that you ^(BG)bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. ^9 (BH)As the Father has loved me, ^(BI)so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ^10 (BJ)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ^(BK)I have kept ^(BL)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, ^(BM)that my joy may be in you, and that ^(BN)your joy may be full.

^12 (BO)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (BP)Greater love has no one than this, ^(BQ)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(BR)my friends ^(BS)if you do what I command you. ^15 (BT)No longer do I call you servants,^[c] for the servant ^(BU)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(BV)all that I have heard from my Father ^(BW)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(BX)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(BY)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(BZ)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, ^(CA)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18 (CB)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19 (CC)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(CD)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: ^(CE)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(CF)they will also persecute you. ^(CG)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.