1 ^15:1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ^15:2Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he trims, that it may bear more fruit. ^15:3You are now pure, by means of the word which I have spoken to you; ^15:4continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me. ^15:5I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing. ^15:6If any one continues not in me he is cast without as a branch, and is withered; and they collect them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ^15:7If you continue in me, and my words continue in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be [given] you. ^15:8By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples. ^15:9As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; continue in my love. ^15:10If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love. ^15:11I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you, and your joy be completed. ^15:12This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^15:13No man has greater love than this, that one should give his life for his friends. ^15:14You are my friends if you do what I command you; ^15:15I no longer call you servants, for the servant knows not what his Lord does; but I have called you friends: for all things which I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ^15:16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. ^15:17These things I charge you, that you love one another.

2 ^15:18If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you. ^15:19If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ^15:20Remember the word which I said to you, a servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours. ^15:21But all these things they will do to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me. ^15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no pretext for their sin. ^15:23He that hates me, hates my Father also. ^15:24If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ^15:25But [they do this] that the word written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause. ^15:26But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me; ^15:27and you shall also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

3 ^16:1These things I have said to you, that you may not be offended. ^16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when every one that kills you will think he renders God a service. ^16:3And these things they will do, because they have not known the Father nor me. ^16:4But these things I have told you, that when the time comes you may remember that I told you of them. But I told you not these things at the beginning, because I was with you. ^16:5But now I go to him that sent me, and no one of you asks me, Where do you go? ^16:6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. ^16:7But I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you. ^16:8And when he has come, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ^16:9of sin, because they believe not on me; ^16:10and of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you behold me no more; ^16:11and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

4 ^16:12I have many things yet to say to you, but you cannot bear them now; ^16:13but when he, the Spirit of truth has come, he will lead you in all the truth; for he will not speak of himself, but he will speak whatever he shall hear, and tell you things to come. ^16:14He shall glorify me, because he shall receive from me and tell you. ^16:15All things that the Father has, are mine; on this account I said, He shall receive of me and tell you.

5 ^16:16A little while and you shall not see me; and again a little while and you shall see me. ^16:17Then some of his disciples said one to another, What is this that he says to us, A little while and you shall not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me? and, Because I go to the Father? ^16:18They said therefore, What is this that he says, The little while? We do not know what he says.

6 ^16:19Jesus knew that they wished to ask him, and said to them, Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this that I said, A little while and you shall not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me? ^16:20I tell you most truly, that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall become joy. ^16:21For when a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come; but when she has borne the child she no longer remembers the distress, because of joy that a man is born into the world. ^16:22And you therefore now indeed have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy no one shall take from you. ^16:23And in that day you shall ask me nothing; I tell you most truly, whatever you shall ask the Father, he will give you in my name. ^16:24Till now you have asked nothing in my name; ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

7 ^16:25These things have I spoken to you in parables. The time is coming when I will no more speak to you in parables, but I will tell you plainly of the Father. ^16:26In that day you shall ask in my name, and I tell you not that I will ask the Father for you; ^16:27for the Father himself is a friend to you, because you have been friends to me, and believed that I came forth from God. ^16:28I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; again I leave the world and go to the Father.

8 ^16:29Then his disciples said to him, Behold, now you speak plainly, and say no parable; ^16:30now we know that you know all things, and have no need that any one should ask you; on this account we believe that you have come forth from God. ^16:31Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? ^16:32Behold, the time is coming, and has come, that you shall be scattered every one to his own, and leave me alone; and I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ^16:33These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.