| 1 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do abide in his love. | 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. |
| 2 dummy verses inserted by amos | 2 Every branch in me that bears no fruit he cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunesto make it bear even more. |
| 3 dummy verses inserted by amos | 3 You are clean already, by means of the word that I have spoken to you. |
| 4 dummy verses inserted by amos | 4 Remain in me, as I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, unless it remains part of the vine,neither can you unless you remain in me. |
| 5 dummy verses inserted by amos | 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty; forcut off from me you can do nothing. |
| 6 dummy verses inserted by amos | 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a branch -- and withers; these branches arecol ected and thrown on the fire and are burnt. |
| 7 dummy verses inserted by amos | 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for whatever you please and you wilget it. |
| 8 dummy verses inserted by amos | 8 It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit and be my disciples. |
| 9 dummy verses inserted by amos | 9 I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. |
| 10 dummy verses inserted by amos | 10 If you keep my commandments you wil remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father'scommandments and remain in his love. |
| 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled. | 11 I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. |
| 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. | 12 This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you. |
| 13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. | 13 No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. |
| 14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. | 14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you. |
| 15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. | 15 I shall no longer cal you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I cal youfriends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father. |
| 16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. | 16 You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit thatwil last; so that the Father wil give you anything you ask him in my name. |
| 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. | 17 My command to you is to love one another. |
| 18 If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. | 18 If the world hates you, you must realise that it hated me before it hated you. |
| 19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. | 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you do not belong tothe world, because my choice of you has drawn you out of the world, that is why the world hates you. |
| 20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also. | 20 Remember the words I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me,they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours as wel . |
| 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him who sent me. | 21 But it wil be on my account that they will do al this to you, because they do not know the one whosent me. |
| 22 If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. | 22 If I had not come, if I had not spoken to them, they would have been blameless; but as it is they haveno excuse for their sin. |
| 23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. | 23 Anyone who hates me hates my Father. |
| 24 If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. | 24 If I had not performed such works among them as no one else has ever done, they would beblameless; but as it is, in spite of what they have seen, they hate both me and my Father. |
| 25 But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause. | 25 But al this was only to fulfil the words written in their Law: They hated me without reason. |
| 26 But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me. | 26 When the Paraclete comes, whom I shal send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who issuesfrom the Father, he wil be my witness. |
| 27 And you shall give testimony, because you are with me from the beginning. | 27 And you too will be witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning. |