| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. | 1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. |
| 2Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. | 2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. |
| 3You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. | 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. |
| 4Abide 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. | 4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. |
| 5“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. | 5I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. |
| 6If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. | 6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned. |
| 7If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. | 7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. |
| 8By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. | 8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples. |
| 9“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. | 9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. |
| 10If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. | 10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. |
| 11“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. | 11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. |
| 12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | 12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
| 13Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. | 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. |
| 14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. | 14You are My friends if you do what 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, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. | 15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. |
| 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. | 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. |
| 17These things I command you, that you love one another. | 17This is My command to you: Love one another. |
| 18“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. | 18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. |
| 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. | 19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. |
| 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. | 20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. |
| 21But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. | 21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me. |
| 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. | 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. |
| 23He who hates Me hates My Father also. | 23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. |
| 24If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. | 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. |
| 25But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ | 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’ |
| 26“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. | 26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me. |
| 27And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. | 27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. |
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