{"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/web/john/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:55:59.616Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|I command these things to you, that you may love one another."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He who hates me, hates my Father also."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"|When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 15 (WEB)","markdown":"[John 15](https://primebible.com/web/john/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/john/15 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}