João 15

1Eu sou a videira verdadeira, e meu Pai é o lavrador. 2Todo ramo que em mim não dá fruto, ele o tira; e todo o que da fruto, ele o limpa, para que dê mais fruto. 3Vós já estais limpos pela palavra que vos tenho falado. 4Estai em mim, e eu em vós; como o ramo de si mesmo não pode dar fruto, se não estiver na videira, assim vós também não, se não estiverdes em mim. 5Eu sou a videira, vós sois os ramos; quem está em mim, e eu nele, esse dá muito fruto; porque sem mim nada podeis fazer. 6Se alguém não estiver em mim, é lançado fora, como o ramo, e seca-se; e os colhem , e os lançam no fogo, e ardem. 7Se vós estiverdes em mim, e minhas palavras estiverem em vós, tudo o que quiserdes pedireis, e será feito para vós. 8Nisto é glorificado meu Pai, em que deis muito fruto; e assim sereis meus discípulos. 9Como o Pai me amou, também eu vos amei; estai neste meu amor. 10Se guardardes meus mandamentos, estareis em meu amor. Como eu tenho guardado os mandamentos de meu Pai, e estou em seu amor. 11Estas coisas eu tenho vos dito para que minha alegria esteja em vós, e vossa alegria seja completa. 12Este é meu mandamento: que vos ameis uns aos outros, assim como eu vos amei. 13Ninguém tem maior amor que este: que alguém ponha sua vida por seus amigos. 14Vós sois meus amigos, se fizerdes o que eu vos mando. 15Já não vos chamo mais servos; porque o servo não sabe o que faz seu senhor; mas eu tenho vos chamado de amigos, porque tudo quanto ouvi de meu Pai eu tenho vos feito conhecer. 16Não fostes vós que me escolhestes, porém eu vos escolhi, e tenho vos posto para que vades, e deis fruto, e vosso fruto permaneça; para que tudo quanto pedirdes ao Pai em meu nome, ele vos dê. 17Isto vos mando, para que vos ameis uns aos outros. 18Se o mundo vos odeia, sabei que odiou a mim antes que a vós. 19Se vós fôsseis do mundo, o mundo amaria ao seu; mas porque não sois do mundo, antes eu vos escolhi do mundo, por isso o mundo vos odeia. 20Lembrai-vos da palavra que vos tenho dito: não é o servo maior que seu senhor. Se me perseguiram, também vos perseguirão; se guardaram minha palavra, também guardarão a vossa. 21Mas tudo isto vos farão por causa do meu nome; porque não conhecem a aquele que me enviou. 22Se eu não tivesse vindo, nem lhes houvesse falado, não teriam pecado; mas agora já não têm pretexto pelo seu pecado. 23Quem me odeia, também odeia a meu Pai. 24Se eu entre eles não tivesse feito obras, que nenhum outro fizera, não teriam pecado; mas agora as viram, e contudo odiaram a mim, e a meu Pai. 25Mas isto é para que se cumpra a palavra que está escrita em sua Lei: Sem causa me odiaram. 26Mas quando vier o Consolador, que eu do Pai vos enviarei, aquele Espírito de verdade, que sai do Pai, ele testemunhará de mim. 27E também vós testemunhareis, pois estivestes comigo desde o princípio.

1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. 8“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. 9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. 11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full. 12“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another. 18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hates me, hates my Father also. 24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. 25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’ 26“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. 27You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

1Ik ben de ware Wijnstok, en Mijn Vader is de Landman. 2Alle rank, die in Mij geen vrucht draagt, die neemt Hij weg; en al wie vrucht draagt, die reinigt Hij, opdat zij meer vrucht drage. 3Gijlieden zijt nu rein om het woord, dat Ik tot u gesproken heb. 4Blijft in Mij, en Ik in u. Gelijkerwijs de rank geen vrucht kan dragen van zichzelve, zo zij niet in den wijnstok blijft; alzo ook gij niet, zo gij in Mij niet blijft. 5Ik ben de Wijnstok, en gij de ranken; die in Mij blijft, en Ik in hem, die draagt veel vrucht; want zonder Mij kunt gij niets doen. 6Zo iemand in Mij niet blijft, die is buiten geworpen, gelijkerwijs de rank, en is verdord; en men vergadert dezelve, en men werpt ze in het vuur, en zij worden verbrand. 7Indien gij in Mij blijft, en Mijn woorden in u blijven, zo wat gij wilt, zult gij begeren, en het zal u geschieden. 8Hierin is Mijn Vader verheerlijkt, dat gij veel vrucht draagt; en gij zult Mijn discipelen zijn. 9Gelijkerwijs de Vader Mij liefgehad heeft, heb Ik ook u liefgehad; blijft in deze Mijn liefde. 10Indien gij Mijn geboden bewaart, zo zult gij in Mijn liefde blijven; gelijkerwijs Ik de geboden Mijns Vaders bewaard heb, en blijf in Zijn liefde. 11Deze dingen heb Ik tot u gesproken, opdat Mijn blijdschap in u blijve, en uw blijdschap vervuld worde. 12Dit is Mijn gebod, dat gij elkander liefhebt, gelijkerwijs Ik u liefgehad heb. 13Niemand heeft meerder liefde dan deze, dat iemand zijn leven zette voor zijn vrienden. 14Gij zijt Mijn vrienden, zo gij doet wat Ik u gebiede. 15Ik heet u niet meer dienstknechten; want de dienstknecht weet niet, wat zijn heer doet; maar Ik heb u vrienden genoemd; want al wat Ik van Mijn Vader gehoord heb, dat heb Ik u bekend gemaakt. 16Gij hebt Mij niet uitverkoren, maar Ik heb u uitverkoren, en Ik heb u gesteld, dat gij zoudt heengaan en vrucht dragen, en dat uw vrucht blijve; opdat, zo wat gij van den Vader begeren zult in Mijn Naam, Hij u dat geve. 17Dit gebied Ik u, opdat gij elkander liefhebt. 18Indien u de wereld haat, zo weet, dat zij Mij eer dan u gehaat heeft. 19Indien gij van de wereld waart, zo zou de wereld het hare liefhebben; doch omdat gij van de wereld niet zijt, maar Ik u uit de wereld heb uitverkoren, daarom haat u de wereld. 20Gedenk des woords, dat Ik u gezegd heb: Een dienstknecht is niet meerder dan zijn heer. Indien zij Mij vervolgd hebben, zij zullen ook u vervolgen; indien zij Mijn woord bewaard hebben, zij zullen ook het uwe bewaren. 21Maar al deze dingen zullen zij doen om Mijns Naams wil, omdat zij Hem niet kennen, Die Mij gezonden heeft. 22Indien Ik niet gekomen ware, en tot hen gesproken had, zij hadden geen zonde; maar nu hebben zij geen voorwendsel voor hun zonde. 23Die Mij haat, die haat ook Mijn Vader. 24Indien Ik de werken onder hen niet had gedaan, die niemand anders gedaan heeft, zij hadden geen zonde; maar nu hebben zij ze gezien, en beiden Mij en Mijn Vader gehaat. 25Maar dit geschiedt, opdat het woord vervuld worde, dat in hun wet geschreven is: Zij hebben mij zonder oorzaak gehaat. 26Maar wanneer de Trooster zal gekomen zijn, Dien Ik u zenden zal van den Vader, namelijk de Geest der waarheid, Die van den Vader uitgaat, Die zal van Mij getuigen. 27En gij zult ook getuigen, want gij zijt van den beginne met Mij geweest.