| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. | 1"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper. |
| 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. | 2Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. |
| 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. | 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. |
| 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. | 4Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. |
| 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. | 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me. |
| 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. | 6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. |
| 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! | 7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. |
| 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. | 8My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. |
| 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. | 9"As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My 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. | 10If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commands and remain in His love. |
| 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! | 11"I have spoken these things to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. |
| 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. | 12This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you. |
| 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. | 13No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends. |
| 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. | 14You are My friends if you do what I command 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. | 15I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn't know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father. |
| 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. | 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. |
| 17 This is my command: Love each other. The World’s Hatred | 17This is what I command you: Love one another. |
| 18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. | 18"If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated 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. | 19If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. |
| 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. | 20Remember the word I spoke to you: A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours. |
| 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me. | 21But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don't know the One who sent Me. |
| 22 They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. | 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin. |
| 23 Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. | 23The one who hates Me also hates 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. | 24If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. |
| 25 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures : ‘They hated me without cause.’ | 25But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason. |
| 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. | 26"When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father--He will testify about Me. |
| 27 And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry. | 27You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. |
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