31BUT THAT MAY KNOW THE WORLD THAT I LOVE THE FATHER, AND EVEN AS HE HAS COMMANDED TO ME THE FATHER, THUS I DO. DO RISE UP, LET US GO FROM HERE. 31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here. [’’]
1I MYSELF AM THE VINE <THE> TRUE, AND THE FATHER OF MINE THE VINEDRESSER IS. Jesus the True Vine (Isaiah 27:1–13) 1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
2EVERY BRANCH IN ME MYSELF NOT BEARING FRUIT HE TAKES AWAY IT, AND EVERY ONE <THE> FRUIT BEARING HE PRUNES IT THAT FRUIT MORE IT MAY BEAR. 2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
3ALREADY YOU YOURSELVES CLEAN ARE BECAUSE OF THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4DO ABIDE IN ME MYSELF AND I MYSELF IN YOU. EVEN AS THE BRANCH NOT IS ABLE FRUIT TO BEAR OF ITSELF ONLY UNLESS IT SHALL ABIDE IN THE VINE, SO NEITHER [ARE ABLE] YOU ONLY UNLESS IN ME MYSELF YOU SHALL ABIDE. 4Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
5I MYSELF AM THE VINE, YOU [ARE] THE BRANCHES. THE [ONE] ABIDING IN ME MYSELF AND I MYSELF IN HIM, HE BEARS FRUIT MUCH; FOR APART FROM ME NOT YOU ARE ABLE TO DO NO [THING]. 5I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
6ONLY UNLESS SOMEONE SHALL ABIDE IN ME MYSELF, HE IS THROWN OUT LIKE THE BRANCH AND IS DRIED UP, AND THEY GATHER THEM AND INTO THE FIRE CAST, AND IT IS BURNED. 6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
7IF YOU SHALL ABIDE IN ME MYSELF AND THE DECLARATIONS OF MINE IN YOU SHALL ABIDE, WHATEVER IF YOU SHALL WISH DO YOURSELF ASK AND IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU. 7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8IN THIS IS GLORIFIED THE FATHER OF MINE, THAT FRUIT MUCH YOU MAY BEAR AND YOU MAY BECOME TO ME DISCIPLES. 8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
9EVEN AS HAS LOVED ME THE FATHER, I MYSELF ALSO YOU LOVED; DO ABIDE IN THE LOVE <THE> OF MINE. No Greater Love 9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
10IF THE COMMANDMENTS OF MINE YOU SHALL KEEP, YOU WILL ABIDE IN THE LOVE OF MINE; EVEN AS I MYSELF THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE FATHER OF MINE HAVE KEPT, AND I ABIDE OF HIM IN THE LOVE. 10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
11THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU THAT <THE> JOY <THE> OF MINE IN YOU MAY BE AND THE JOY OF YOU MAY BE FULL. 11I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
12THIS IS <THE> COMMANDMENT <THE> OF MINE THAT YOU MAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER EVEN AS I LOVED YOU. 12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13GREATER THAN THIS LOVE NO [ONE] HAS THAT ONE THE LIFE OF HIM MAY LAY DOWN FOR THE FRIENDS OF HIM. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
14YOU YOURSELVES FRIENDS OF MINE ARE IF YOU SHALL DO WHAT THINGS AS MUCH AS I MYSELF COMMAND YOU. 14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
15NO LONGER I NAME YOU SERVANTS, FOR THE SERVANT NOT KNOWS WHAT IS DOING HIS <THE> MASTER; YOU HOWEVER I HAVE CALLED FRIENDS, BECAUSE ALL THINGS THAT I HEARD FROM THE FATHER OF MINE I HAVE MADE KNOWN TO YOU. 15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
16NOT YOU YOURSELVES ME CHOSE, BUT I MYSELF CHOSE YOU AND APPOINTED YOU THAT YOU YOURSELVES MAY GO AND FRUIT YOU MAY BEAR, AND THE FRUIT OF YOU MAY REMAIN; SO THAT WHICH ONE MAYBE YOU MAY ASK THE FATHER IN THE NAME OF ME, HE MAY GIVE YOU. 16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit— fruit that will remain— so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
17THESE THINGS I COMMAND YOU THAT YOU MAY LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 17This is My command to you: Love one another.
18IF THE WORLD YOU HATES, YOU KNOW THAT ME MYSELF BEFORE YOU IT HAS HATED. The Hatred of the World 18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
19IF OF THE WORLD YOU WERE, THE WORLD THEN WOULD <THE> [AS ITS] OWN WAS LOVING [YOU]; BECAUSE HOWEVER OF THE WORLD NOT YOU ARE, BUT I MYSELF CHOSE YOU OUT OF THE WORLD, ON ACCOUNT OF THIS HATES YOU THE WORLD. 19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
20DO REMEMBER THE WORD THAT I MYSELF SAID TO YOU: NOT IS A SERVANT GREATER THAN THE MASTER OF HIM. IF ME MYSELF THEY PERSECUTED ALSO YOU THEY WILL PERSECUTE; IF THE WORD OF MINE THEY KEPT ALSO <THE> YOURS THEY WILL KEEP. 20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’*NoteCloseJohn 13:16 If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
21BUT THESE THINGS ALL THEY WILL DO AGAINST YOU ON ACCOUNT OF THE NAME OF ME, BECAUSE NOT THEY KNOW THE [ONE] HAVING SENT ME. 21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
22ONLY UNLESS I COME AND I SAID TO THEM, SIN NOT THEY HAD; NOW HOWEVER EXCUSE NOT THEY HAVE FOR THE SIN OF THEM. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
23THE [ONE] ME MYSELF HATING ALSO THE FATHER OF MINE HATES. 23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
24IF THE WORKS NOT I HAD DONE AMONG THEM THAT NO OTHER DID, SIN NOT THEY HAD; NOW HOWEVER BOTH THEY HAVE SEEN AND HAVE HATED BOTH ME MYSELF AND THE FATHER OF MINE; 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
25BUT [THIS IS] THAT MAY BE FULFILLED THE WORD <THE> IN THE LAW OF THEM WRITTEN THAT THEY HATED ME WITHOUT CAUSE.’ 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’*NoteCloseSee Psalm 35:19, Psalm 38:19, and Psalm 69:4.
26WHEN NOW MAY COME THE HELPER WHOM I MYSELF WILL SEND TO YOU FROM THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT <THE> OF TRUTH WHO FROM THE FATHER GOES FORTH, HE WILL BEAR WITNESS CONCERNING ME; 26When the Advocate*NoteCloseOr Comforter or Helper or Counselor; Greek Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from the Father— the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father— He will testify about Me.
27ALSO YOU YOURSELVES NOW BEAR WITNESS, BECAUSE FROM [THE] BEGINNING WITH ME YOU ARE. 27And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. [’’]