John 15, side by side

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

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

²Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

²Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

³You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

⁴Remain 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.

⁴Abide 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.

⁵I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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 do nothing.

⁶If 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.

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 you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

⁸“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

⁸Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

⁹Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

⁹As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

¹⁰If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

¹¹I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹¹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

¹²“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

¹²This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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

¹⁵No 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.

¹⁵Henceforth 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.

¹⁶You 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.

¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

¹⁷“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

¹⁷These things I command you, that ye love one another.

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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

¹⁹If 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.

¹⁹If 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.

²⁰Remember 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 also keep yours.

²⁰Remember 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.

²¹But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

²¹But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²²If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

²³He who hates me, hates my Father also.

²³He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

²⁴If 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.

²⁵But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

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

²⁶“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.

²⁶But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

²⁷You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

²⁷And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.