{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/john/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T08:41:18.488Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":15,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":14,"nextChapter":16,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I am the vine, you are the branches: He that stays in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known to you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"These things I command you, that you love one another."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He that hates me hates my Father also."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 15 (AKJV)","markdown":"[John 15](https://primebible.com/akjv/john/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/john/15 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}