| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. | 1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. |
| 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. | 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. |
| 3You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. | 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given 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. | 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful 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. | 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce 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. | 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be 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. | 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! |
| 8By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. | 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. |
| 9“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. | 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. 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. | 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey 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. | 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! |
| 12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. |
| 13Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. | 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
| 14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. | 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. |
| 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. | 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. |
| 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. | 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. |
| 17These things I command you, that you love one another. | 17 This is my command: Love each other. The World’s Hatred |
| 18“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. | 18 “If the world hates you, remember 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. | 19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. |
| 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. | 20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. |
| 21But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. | 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected 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. | 22 They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. |
| 23He who hates Me hates My Father also. | 23 Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. |
| 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. | 24 If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate 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.’ | 25 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures : ‘They hated me without cause.’ |
| 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. | 26 “But I will send you the Advocate —the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me. |
| 27And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. | 27 And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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