{"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/kjv/john/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:30:43.679Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 taketh away: and every <i>branch</i> that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto 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 ye, except ye abide in me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I am the vine, ye <i>are</i> the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye 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 <i>them</i> into the fire, and they are burned."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"If ye keep my commandments, ye 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 unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and <i>that</i> your joy might be full."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and <i>that</i> your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"These things I command you, that ye love one another."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before <i>it hated</i> you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Remember the word that I said unto 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 unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke 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 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 <i>this cometh to pass</i>, 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 unto you from the Father, <i>even</i> the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 15 (KJV)","markdown":"[John 15](https://primebible.com/kjv/john/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/john/15 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}