John 15

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.	1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
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.	2 He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
3 You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you.	3 You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
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.	4 Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
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.	5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
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.	6 Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
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.	7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
8 In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.	8 By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.	9 As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my 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.	10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
11 These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.	11 "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
12 This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.	12 This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
13 No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.	13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.	14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
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.	15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
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.	16 It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
17 This I command you: that you love one another.	17 This I command you: love one another.
18 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.	18 "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
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.	19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
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.	20 Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 But all these things they will do to you because of my name, for they do not know him who sent me.	21 And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
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.	22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me, hates my Father also.	23 Whoever hates me also hates 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.	24 If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: ‘For they hated me without cause.’	25 But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, 'They hated me without cause.'
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.	26 "When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.
27 And you shall offer testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.”	27 And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.