MODERN LITERAL VERSION

15:1 I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch that is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch that is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit.
15:3 Already you* are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you*.
15:4 Abide in me and I in you*. As the branch cannot bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you* if you* do not abide in me.
15:5 I am the vine, you* are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you* can do nothing separate from me.
15:6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast outside like a branch and is dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned.
15:7 If you* abide in me and my words should abide in you*, ask whatever you* wish and it will be happen for you*.
15:8 My Father is glorified in this, that* you* may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.

15:9 Just-as the Father has loved* me, I have also loved* you*. Abide in my love*.
15:10 If you* keep my commandments, you* will abide in my love*; just-as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love*.
15:11 I have spoken to you* these things, that* my joy may abide in you* and that* your* joy may be fulfilled.
15:12 This is my commandment, that* you* should love* one another, just-as I have loved* you*.
15:13 No one has greater love* than this: that* someone may lay down his life on behalf of his friends.
15:14 You* are my friends, if you* practice as many things as I command you*.
15:15 I call you* as bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have called you* friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you*.
15:16 You* did not choose me, but I chose you* and appointed* you*, that* you* should go and should bring forth fruit and that* your* fruit should abide, that* whatever you* ask of the Father in my name, he should give it to you*.
15:17 I command you* to do these things, that* you* may love* one another.

15:18 If the world hates you*, you* know that it has hated me before it hated you*.
15:19 If you* were of* the world, the world would love its own, but because you* are not of* the world, but I chose you* out of the world, therefore the world is hating you*.
15:20 Remember the word that I said to you*, A bondservant 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*.
15:21 But they will do all these things to you* because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.
15:23 He who hates me also hates my Father.
15:24 If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, they would not have had sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
15:25 But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.' {Ps 109:3}

15:26 But whenever the Helper* has come, whom I will send to you* from the Father, who is the Spirit of the truth, who goes out from the Father, he will testify concerning me;
15:27 and you* also testify, because you* have been with me from the beginning.