The Gospel according to S. John. Chapter 15

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CHAP. XV.

1 The Consolation and mutuall loue betweene Christ and his members, vnder the parable of the vine. 18 A comfort in the hatred and persecution of the world. 26 The office of the holy Ghost, and of the Apostles.

¹I am the true vine, and my Father is þ^e husbandman.

²Euery branch in me that beareth not fruit, hee taketh away: and euery branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring foorth more fruit.²

³Now ye are cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you.³

⁴Abide in me, and in you: As the branch cannot beare fruit of itselfe, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can doe nothing.⁵

⁶If 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.

⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall aske what ye will, and it shall be done vnto you.

⁸Herein is my Father glorified, that ye beare much fruit, so shall ye bee my Disciples.

⁹As the Father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue ye in my loue.

¹⁰If ye keepe my Commandements, ye shal abide in my loue, euen as I haue kept my Fathers Commandements, and abide in his loue.

¹¹These things haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full.

¹²This is my Commaundement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.¹²

¹³Greater loue hath no man then this, that a man lay downe his life for his friends.

¹⁴Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoeuer I command you.

¹⁵Henceforth I call you not seruants, for the seruant knoweth not what his lord doth, but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, I haue made knowen vnto you.

¹⁶Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that you should goe and bring foorth fruit, and that your fruite should remaine: that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you.¹⁶

¹⁷These things I commaund you, that ye loue one another.

¹⁸If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹If ye were of the world, the world would loue his owne: But because yee are not of the world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therfore the world hateth you.

²⁰Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then the Lord: if they haue persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they haue kept my saying, they will keepe yours also.²⁰

²¹But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they know not him that sent me.

²²If I had not come, and spoken vnto them, they had not had sinne: but now they haue no cloke for their sinne.²²

²³He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

²⁴If I had not done among thē the works which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but now haue they both seene, & hated both me & my father.

²⁵But this commeth to passe, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.²⁵

²⁶But when the Comforter is come, whom I wil send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth from the Father, hee shall testifie of me.²⁶

²⁷And ye also shall beare witnesse, because ye haue bene with me from the beginning.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for John Chapter 15

² Mat.15. 13.
³ Iohn.13. 10.
⁵ Or, seuered from me.
¹² Chap.13. 34. 1.thes. 4.9. 1.iohn 3.11.
¹⁶ Mat.28.19
²⁰ Chap.13. 16. mat.10. 24.
²² Or, excuse.
²⁵ Psa.35.19.
²⁶ Chap.14. 26. luke 24 49.

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