John 15

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.	1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
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.	2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 You are clean already, by means of the word that I have spoken to you.	3 You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you.
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.	4 Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so also are you unable, unless you abide in me.
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.	5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.
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.	6 If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns.
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for whatever you please and you wilget it.	7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
8 It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit and be my disciples.	8 In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.
9 I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.	9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.
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.	10 If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.	11 These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.
12 This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.	12 This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
13 No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.	13 No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.	14 You are my friends, if you do what I instruct 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.	15 I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to 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.	16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.
17 My command to you is to love one another.	17 This I command you: that you love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you must realise that it hated me before it hated you.	18 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before 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.	19 If you had been of the world, the world would love what is its own. Yet truly, you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world; because of this, the world hates you.
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 .	20 Remember my saying that I told you: The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
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.	21 But all these things they will do to you because of my name, for they do not know him who sent me.
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.	22 If I had not come and had not spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Anyone who hates me hates my Father.	23 Whoever hates me, hates my Father also.
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.	24 If I had not accomplished among them works that no other person has accomplished, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen me, and they have hated me and my Father.
25 But al this was only to fulfil the words written in their Law: They hated me without reason.	25 But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: ‘For they hated me without cause.’
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.	26 But when the Advocate has arrived, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will offer testimony about me.
27 And you too will be witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.	27 And you shall offer testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.”