{"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/drb/john/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:21:29.213Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 husbandman. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Now you are clean by reason of 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, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I am the vine; you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"In this is my Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Abide in my love. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever 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 have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever 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, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him who sent me. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. "}],"citation":{"inline":"John 15 (DRB)","markdown":"[John 15](https://primebible.com/drb/john/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/john/15 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}