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John 15 I am the vine, ye are the branches

Jesus teaches that he is the true vine and his disciples are branches that bear fruit only by abiding in him. He calls them friends, commands them to love one another, and warns that the world will hate them.

22 of 27 verses connected · 107 talks · 207 verse-to-talk connections

Come, Follow Me 2027Week 23 · May 31–June 6

John 15

  1. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (8 connected talks)
  2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. (7 connected talks)
  3. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. (5 connected talks)
  4. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. (16 connected talks)
  5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. (19 connected talks)
  6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (7 connected talks)
  7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. (8 connected talks)
  8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. (5 connected talks)
  9. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (11 connected talks)
  10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. (15 connected talks)
  11. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. (12 connected talks)
  12. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. (23 connected talks)
  13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (23 connected talks)
  14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. (9 connected talks)
  15. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (3 connected talks)
  16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (12 connected talks)
  17. These things I command you, that ye love one another. (2 connected talks)
  18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. (3 connected talks)
  19. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (6 connected talks)
  20. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
  21. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
  22. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. (1 connected talks)
  23. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
  24. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. (1 connected talks)
  25. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
  26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: (11 connected talks)
  27. And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

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