⁴Remain in me, as I also remain in you.^x No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

⁵“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit;^y apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.^z ⁷If you remain in me^a and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.^b ⁸This is to my Father’s glory,^c that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.^d

⁹“As the Father has loved me,^e so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰If you keep my commands,^f you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^g ¹²My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^h ¹³Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.ⁱ ¹⁴You are my friends^j if you do what I command.^k ¹⁵I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.^l ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you^m so that you might go and bear fruitⁿ—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.^o

Read in Logos

John 15:15: No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Cross references

xSee Jn 6:56
yver 16
zver 2; Eze 15:4; See Mt 3:10
aver 4; See Jn 6:56
bSee Mt 7:7
cSee Mt 9:8
d Jn 8:31
e Jn 17:23, 24, 26
fSee Jn 14:15
gSee Jn 3:29
hver 17; See Jn 13:34
i Ge 44:33; Jn 10:11; Ro 5:7, 8
j Job 16:20; Pr 18:24; Lk 12:4
k Mt 12:50
l Jn 8:26
mver 19; Jn 13:18
nver 5
oSee Mt 7:7