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John 15 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
1 Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἄμπελος ἡ ἀληθινή, καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ γεωργός ἐστι.
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 πᾶν κλῆμα ἐν ἐμοὶ μὴ φέρον καρπόν, αἴρει αὐτό, καὶ πᾶν τὸ καρπὸν φέρον, καθαίρει αὐτό, ἵνα πλείονα καρπὸν φέρῃ.
3 You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you.
3 ἤδη ὑμεῖς καθαροί ἐστε διὰ τὸν λόγον ὃν λελάληκα ὑμῖν.
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 μείνατε ἐν ἐμοί, κἀγὼ ἐν ὑμῖν. καθὼς τὸ κλῆμα οὐ δύναται καρπὸν φέρειν ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ, ἐὰν μὴ μείνῃ ἐν τῇ ἀμπέλῳ, οὕτως οὐδὲ ὑμεῖς, ἐὰν μὴ ἐν ἐμοὶ μείνητε.
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 ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἄμπελος, ὑμεῖς τὰ κλήματα. ὁ μένων ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ, οὗτος φέρει καρπὸν πολύν, ὅτι χωρὶς ἐμοῦ οὐ δύνασθε ποιεῖν οὐδέν.
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 ἐὰν μή τις μείνῃ ἐν ἐμοί, ἐβλήθη ἔξω ὡς τὸ κλῆμα καὶ ἐξηράνθη, καὶ συνάγουσιν αὐτὰ καὶ εἰς τὸ πῦρ βάλλουσι, καὶ καίεται.
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 ἐὰν μείνητε ἐν ἐμοὶ καὶ τὰ ῥήματά μου ἐν ὑμῖν μείνῃ, ὃ ἐὰν θέλητε αἰτήσασθε, καὶ γενήσεται ὑμῖν.
8 In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.
8 ἐν τούτῳ ἐδοξάσθη ὁ πατήρ μου, ἵνα καρπὸν πολὺν φέρητε, καὶ γενήσεσθε ἐμοὶ μαθηταί.
9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.
9 καθὼς ἠγάπησέ με ὁ πατήρ, κἀγὼ ἠγάπησα ὑμᾶς· μείνατε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ τῇ ἐμῇ.
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 ἐὰν τὰς ἐντολάς μου τηρήσητε, μενεῖτε ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ μου, καθὼς ἐγὼ τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ πατρός μου τετήρηκα καὶ μένω αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ.
11 These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.
11 Ταῦτα λελάληκα ὑμῖν ἵνα ἡ χαρὰ ἡ ἐμὴ ἐν ὑμῖν μείνῃ καὶ ἡ χαρὰ ὑμῶν πληρωθῇ.
12 This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
12 αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ ἐντολὴ ἡ ἐμή, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους καθὼς ἠγάπησα ὑμᾶς.
13 No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
13 μείζονα ταύτης ἀγάπην οὐδεὶς ἔχει, ἵνα τις τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ θῇ ὑπὲρ τῶν φίλων αὐτοῦ.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.
14 ὑμεῖς φίλοι μού ἐστε, ἐὰν ποιῆτε ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν.
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 οὐκέτι ὑμᾶς λέγω δούλους, ὅτι ὁ δοῦλος οὐκ οἶδε τί ποιεῖ αὐτοῦ ὁ κύριος· ὑμᾶς δὲ εἴρηκα φίλους, ὅτι πάντα ἃ ἤκουσα παρὰ τοῦ πατρός μου ἐγνώρισα ὑμῖν.
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 οὐχ ὑμεῖς με ἐξελέξασθε, ἀλλ᾽ ἐγὼ ἐξελεξάμην ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔθηκα ὑμᾶς ἵνα ὑμεῖς ὑπάγητε καὶ καρπὸν φέρητε, καὶ ὁ καρπὸς ὑμῶν μένῃ, ἵνα ὅ τι ἂν αἰτήσητε τὸν πατέρα ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί μου, δῷ ὑμῖν.
17 This I command you: that you love one another.
17 ταῦτα ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους.
18 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.
18 Εἰ ὁ κόσμος ὑμᾶς μισεῖ, γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐμὲ πρῶτον ὑμῶν μεμίσηκεν.
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 εἰ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου ἦτε, ὁ κόσμος ἂν τὸ ἴδιον ἐφίλει· ὅτι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου οὐκ ἐστέ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐγὼ ἐξελεξάμην ὑμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου, διὰ τοῦτο μισεῖ ὑμᾶς ὁ κόσμος.
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 μνημονεύετε τοῦ λόγου οὗ ἐγὼ εἶπον ὑμῖν· οὐκ ἔστι δοῦλος μείζων τοῦ κυρίου αὐτοῦ. εἰ ἐμὲ ἐδίωξαν, καὶ ὑμᾶς διώξουσιν· εἰ τὸν λόγον μου ἐτήρησαν, καὶ τὸν ὑμέτερον τηρήσουσιν.
21 But all these things they will do to you because of my name, for they do not know him who sent me.
21 ἀλλὰ ταῦτα πάντα ποιήσουσιν ὑμῖν διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδασι τὸν πέμψαντά με.
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 εἰ μὴ ἦλθον καὶ ἐλάλησα αὐτοῖς, ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ εἶχον· νῦν δὲ πρόφασιν οὐκ ἔχουσι περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν.
23 Whoever hates me, hates my Father also.
23 ὁ ἐμὲ μισῶν καὶ τὸν πατέρα μου μισεῖ.
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 εἰ τὰ ἔργα μὴ ἐποίησα ἐν αὐτοῖς ἃ οὐδεὶς ἄλλος πεποίηκεν, ἁμαρτίαν οὐκ εἶχον· νῦν δὲ καὶ ἑωράκασι καὶ μεμισήκασι καὶ ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν πατέρα μου.
25 But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: ‘For they hated me without cause.’
25 ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα πληρωθῇ ὁ λόγος ὁ γεγραμμένος ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐμίσησάν με δωρεάν.
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 ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ὁ παράκλητος ὃν ἐγὼ πέμψω ὑμῖν παρὰ τοῦ πατρός, τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας ὃ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκπορεύεται, ἐκεῖνος μαρτυρήσει περὶ ἐμοῦ·
27 And you shall offer testimony, because you are with me from the beginning.”
27 καὶ ὑμεῖς δὲ μαρτυρεῖτε, ὅτι ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐστε.
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 2:21; Isaiah 27:2–3; 1 Corinthians 3:9; Isaiah 60:21; Psalm 80:8–19
- 2 Matthew 3:10; Hebrews 12:10–11; Matthew 15:13; Revelation 3:19; John 15:8
- 3 John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Peter 1:22; John 13:10
- 4 1 John 2:6; Galatians 2:20; John 8:31; 2 John 9; John 6:56
- 5 Philippians 4:13; Colossians 1:10; John 15:16; Galatians 5:22; Proverbs 11:30
- 6 Matthew 7:19; Hebrews 6:7–8; Matthew 13:41; John 15:2; Matthew 3:10
- 7 Psalm 37:4; 1 John 5:14; John 14:13; 1 John 3:22; John 15:16
- 8 Matthew 5:16; John 8:31; Philippians 1:11; 2 Corinthians 9:10–15; John 15:5
- 9 John 17:23–24; John 17:26; 1 John 2:28; Revelation 1:5; John 15:13
- 10 John 14:15; 1 John 5:3; 1 John 3:21–24; 1 John 2:5; 2 Peter 2:21
- 11 Romans 15:13; John 17:13; John 16:24; 1 Peter 1:8; 1 John 1:4
- 12 1 John 4:21; 1 Peter 4:8; John 13:34; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 12:10
- 13 John 10:11; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 5:6–8; John 10:15; 1 John 4:7–11
- 14 Matthew 12:50; 1 John 5:3; James 2:23; John 14:21; John 14:15
- 15 Psalm 25:14; 1 Corinthians 2:9–12; Matthew 13:11; James 2:23; Colossians 1:26
- 16 Jeremiah 1:5–7; John 15:19; Ephesians 2:10; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; 1 John 4:19
- 17 John 15:12; 1 John 3:14–17; 1 Peter 2:17
- 18 1 John 3:13; John 7:7; Luke 6:22; Mark 13:13; John 3:20
- 19 1 John 4:4–5; John 17:14–16; Ephesians 1:4–11; Titus 3:3–7; John 15:16
- 20 2 Timothy 3:12; John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; Ezekiel 3:7; 1 Corinthians 4:12
- 21 Matthew 10:22; John 16:3; John 8:19; Matthew 10:18; Matthew 24:9
- 22 John 9:41; James 4:17; Acts 17:30; Romans 1:20; John 12:48
- 23 John 8:40–42; 1 John 2:23; 2 John 9
- 24 John 14:9; John 5:36; John 10:32; John 7:31; John 10:37
- 25 Psalm 109:3; Psalm 69:4; Psalm 35:19; Luke 24:44; 2 Corinthians 11:7
- 26 John 14:26; John 14:16–17; John 16:13–15; Acts 5:32; Acts 2:32–33
- 27 1 John 4:14; John 21:24; Acts 10:39–42; Luke 24:48; Acts 23:11
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Jesus called Himself the vine, and His disciples the branches, and His Father the husbandman; whereon we have already discoursed as we were able.
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For "He will burn the chaff," saith he, "with unquenchable fire." Thou seest that He is Lord of all things, and that He is Himself the Husbandman; albeit in another place He calls His Father the same. For "My Father," saith He, "is the Husbandman." Thus, inasmuch as He had spoken of an axe, lest thou shouldest suppose that the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)