^15:1 I am the true^* vine and my Father is the farmer. ^15:2 Every branch which is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch which is bringing forth fruit, he cleans {Fig.: prunes} it in-order-that it may bring forth more fruit. ^15:3 You^° are clean already because of the word which I have spoken to you^°. ^15:4 Abide^° in me and I in you^°. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you^° if you^° do not abide in me. ^15:5 I am the vine, you^° are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you^° are not able to do^* anything separate from me. ^15:6 If anyone does not abide in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned. ^15:7 If you^° abide in me, and then my words should abide in you^°, ask whatever you^° wish, and it will happen for you^°. ^15:8 My Father was glorified in this, in-order-that you^° may bring forth much fruit and you^° will become my disciples.

             ^15:9 Just-as the Father loved^* me, I have also loved^* you^°. Abide^° in my love^*. ^15:10 If you^° keep my commandments, you^° will be abiding in my love^*; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love^*. ^15:11 I have spoken to you^° these things in-order-that my joy may abide in you^° and in-order-that your^° joy should be fulfilled. ^15:12 This is my commandment, in-order-that you^° should love^* one another, just-as I loved^* you^°. ^15:13 No one has greater love^* than this: in-order-that someone should lay down his life on behalf of his friends. ^15:14 You^° are my friends, if you^° practice as many things as I command you^°. ^15:15 I call^* you^° bondservants no more, because the bondservant did not know what his lord is doing^*, but I have said to you^° as friends, because all the things which I heard from my Father, I made known to you^°. ^15:16 You^° did not choose me, but I chose you^° and appointed^* you^° in-order-that you^° should proceed-away and should bring forth fruit and in-order-that your^° fruit should abide, that^* anything whatever you^° might ask for of the Father in my name, he should give it to you^°. ^15:17 I command you^° to do these things, in-order-that you^° may love^* one another.

             ^15:18 If the world hates you^°, you^° know that it has hated me first, then you^°. ^15:19 If you^° were from the world, the world would have loved its own, but because you^° are not from the world, but I chose you^° out-of the world, the world is hating you^° because of this. ^15:20 Remember^° the word which I said to you^°, A bondservant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also be persecuting you^°; if they kept my word, they will also be keeping yours^°. ^15:21 But they will be doing^* all these things to you^° because of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. {‘were holding’ in 15:22 & 24 below are translations of imperfect verbs (ongoing action in the past). i.e., would have.} ^15:22 If I did not come and did not speak to them, they were holding no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin. ^15:23 He who hates me also hates my Father. ^15:24 If I did not do the works which no other has done^* among them, then they were holding no sin, but now they both have seen and have hated both me and my Father. ^15:25 But this happened in-order-that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’ {Psa 109:3}

             ^15:26 But whenever the Helper^* comes, whom I will be sending to you^° from the Father, who is the Spirit of the truth, who travels forth from the Father, that one will be testifying concerning me; ^15:27 and you^° also testifying, because you^° are with me from the beginning.