¹ I am the true$ vine and my Father is the farmer.

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.

³ You° are clean already because of the word which I have spoken to you°.

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.

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.

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.

⁷ If you° abide in me, and then my words should abide in you°, ask whatever you° wish, and it will happen for you°.

⁸ My Father was glorified in this, in-order-that you° may bring forth much fruit and you° will become my disciples.

⁹ Just-as the Father loved$ me, I have also loved$ you°. Abide° in my love$.

¹⁰ If you° keep my commandments, you° will be abiding in my love$; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love$.

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.

¹² This is my commandment, in-order-that you° should love$ one another, just-as I loved$ you°.

¹³ No one has greater love$ than this: in-order-that someone should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

¹⁴ You° are my friends, if you° practice as many things as I command you°.

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°.

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°.

¹⁷ I command you° to do these things, in-order-that you° may love$ one another.

¹⁸ If the world hates you°, you° know that it has hated me first, then you°.

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.

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°.

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.}

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.

²³ He who hates me also hates my Father.

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.

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}

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;

²⁷ and you° also testifying, because you° are with me from the beginning.