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Gospel of John, Chapter 15

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Chapter 15 of John—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “I am the true vine,1 and my Father is the cultivator.2
  2. Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away,3 and every one bearing fruit he cleans,[a]4 that it may bear more fruit.5
  3. YOU are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to YOU.6
  4. Remain in union with me, and I in union with YOU.7 Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, in the same way neither can YOU, unless YOU remain in union with me.8
  5. I am the vine, YOU are the branches. He that remains in union with me, and I in union with him, this one bears much fruit;9 because apart from me YOU can do[b] nothing at all.
  6. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and men gather those branches up and pitch them into the fire and they are burned.10
  7. If YOU remain in union with me and my sayings remain in YOU, ask whatever YOU wish and it will take place for YOU.11
  8. My Father is glorified in this, that YOU keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples.12
  9. Just as the Father has loved me13 and I have loved YOU, remain in my love.
  10. If YOU observe my commandments,14 YOU will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father15 and remain in his love.
  11. ¶ “These things I have spoken to YOU, that my joy may be in YOU and YOUR joy may be made full.16
  12. This is my commandment, that YOU love one another just as I have loved YOU.17
  13. No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul[c] in behalf of his friends.18
  14. YOU are my friends if YOU do what I am commanding YOU.19
  15. I no longer call YOU slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called YOU friends,20 because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to YOU.21
  16. YOU did not choose me, but I chose YOU, and I appointed YOU to go on and keep bearing fruit22 and that YOUR fruit should remain; in order that no matter what YOU ask the Father in my name he might give it to YOU.23
  17. ¶ “These things I command YOU, that YOU love one another.24
  18. If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU.25
  19. If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.26 Now because YOU are no part of the world,27 but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU.28
  20. Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also;29 if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also.
  21. But they will do all these things against YOU on account of my name, because they do not know him that sent me.30
  22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin;31 but now they have no excuse for their sin.32
  23. He that hates me hates also my Father.33
  24. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did,34 they would have no sin;35 but now they have both seen and hated me as well as my Father.36
  25. But it is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’37
  26. When the helper[d] arrives that I will send YOU from the Father,38 the spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, that one[e] will bear witness about me;39
  27. and YOU, in turn, are to bear witness,40 because YOU have been with me from when I began.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “prunes.”
  2. ^ Or, “produce.”
  3. ^ Or, “life.”
  4. ^ Or, “the paraclete (comforter).” Gr., ho pa·raʹkle·tos, masc.
  5. ^ “That one,” masc., referring to the “helper,” masc. Compare 16:7.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Is 4:2
  2. ^ Ps 80:8; Je 2:21; 1Co 3:9
  3. ^ Mt 15:13; Heb 6:8
  4. ^ Eph 5:26; Ti 2:14; 1Jo 1:7, 9
  5. ^ 2Pe 1:8
  6. ^ Jn 13:10; 17:17; Ac 15:9; 1Pe 1:22
  7. ^ Jn 6:56; 1Co 12:27; Col 2:19
  8. ^ Ga 2:20; Eph 2:21; 1Jo 2:6
  9. ^ Pr 11:30; Ho 14:8; Jn 15:16; Ga 5:22
  10. ^ Eze 15:4; Mt 3:10; Ro 11:20; Heb 6:4, 8; 1Jo 2:19
  11. ^ Mt 7:7; Jn 16:23
  12. ^ Mt 5:16; Jn 13:35; Pp 1:11
  13. ^ Jn 3:35
  14. ^ Jn 13:34; 14:15; 1Jo 2:5
  15. ^ Jn 8:29
  16. ^ Jn 16:24; 17:13; 1Jo 1:4
  17. ^ Mr 12:31; Jn 13:34; 1Th 4:9; 1Pe 4:8
  18. ^ Jn 10:11; Ro 5:7; Eph 5:2; 1Jo 3:16
  19. ^ Mt 12:50; Jn 14:23
  20. ^ Lu 12:4
  21. ^ Ac 20:27
  22. ^ Mt 28:19; Ro 1:13; Pp 1:22
  23. ^ Jn 14:13
  24. ^ Jn 13:34; 1Jo 3:23
  25. ^ Mt 10:22; Lu 19:14; Jn 17:14; 1Jo 3:13
  26. ^ 1Jo 4:5
  27. ^ Jn 17:14; Jm 4:4
  28. ^ Lu 6:22; 1Pe 4:4
  29. ^ Mt 5:11; 10:22; 24:9; 2Ti 3:12; 1Pe 2:21
  30. ^ Jn 16:3
  31. ^ Jn 9:41
  32. ^ Mt 11:21; Ro 1:20; Jm 4:17
  33. ^ Jn 5:23; 1Jo 2:23
  34. ^ Mt 11:23; Jn 7:31; 11:47
  35. ^ Jn 9:41
  36. ^ Ex 20:5; Jn 5:42
  37. ^ Ps 35:19; 69:4; Lu 23:22
  38. ^ Lu 24:49; Jn 14:26
  39. ^ 1Jo 5:6
  40. ^ Lu 1:2; 24:48; Ac 1:8; 2:22; 5:32; 1Pe 5:1

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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