Boys Life Application Study Bible Gospel of John Sampler - Flipbook - Page 95
1270 // John 15
31 but I will do what the Father requires
of me, so that the world will know that I
love the Father. Come, let’s be going.
JESUS, THE TRUE VINE
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“I am the true grapevine, and my
Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off
every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches
that do bear fruit so they will produce
even more. 3 You have already been
pruned and purified by the message I
have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I
will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the
vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless
you remain in me.
5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the
branches. Those who remain in me, and
I in them, will produce much fruit. For
apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown
away like a useless branch and withers.
Such branches are gathered into a pile
to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me
and my words remain in you, you may
ask for anything you want, and it will be
granted! 8 When you produce much fruit,
you are my true disciples. This brings
great glory to my Father.
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
10 When you obey my commandments,
you remain in my love, just as I obey my
Father’s commandments and remain in
his love. 11 I have told you these things
so that you will be filled with my joy.
Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my
commandment: Love each other in the
same way I have loved you. 13 There is no
greater love than to lay down one’s life
for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if
you do what I command. 15 I no longer
L A S T- M I N U T E WA R N I N G S
(16:1-16) In his last moments with his disciples,
Jesus (1) warned them about further persecution,
(2) told them where he was going, when he was
leaving, and why, and (3) assured them they
wouldn’t be left alone—the Holy Spirit would
come to stay with them. Although Jesus knew
what lie ahead, he didn’t want their faith shaken
or destroyed. Likewise, God wants you to know
that you aren’t alone in the world. You have the
Holy Spirit to comfort you, teach you truth, and
help you.
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call you slaves, because a master doesn’t
confide in his slaves. Now you are my
friends, since I have told you everything
the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose
me. I chose you. I appointed you to go
and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for,
using my name. 17 This is my command:
Love each other.
THE WORLD’S HATRED
“If the world hates you, remember that
it hated me first. 19 The world would love
you as one of its own if you belonged to it,
but you are no longer part of the world. I
chose you to come out of the world, so it
hates you. 20 Do you remember what I told
you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally
they will persecute you. And if they had
listened to me, they would listen to you.
21 They will do all this to you because of
me, for they have rejected the one who
sent me. 22 They would not be guilty if I
had not come and spoken to them. But
now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Anyone who hates me also hates my
Father. 24 If I hadn’t done such miraculous
signs among them that no one else could
do, they would not be guilty. But as it is,
they have seen everything I did, yet they
still hate me and my Father. 25 This fulfills
what is written in their Scriptures*: ‘They
hated me without cause.’
26 “But I will send you the Advocate*—
the Spirit of truth. He will come to you
from the Father and will testify all about
me. 27 And you must also testify about me
because you have been with me from the
beginning of my ministry.
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“I have told you these things so
that you won’t abandon your
faith. 2 For you will be expelled from
the synagogues, and the time is coming
when those who kill you will think they
are doing a holy service for God. 3 This
is because they have never known the
Father or me. 4 Yes, I’m telling you these
things now, so that when they happen,
you will remember my warning. I didn’t
tell you earlier because I was going to be
with you for a while longer.
15:25 Greek in their law. Pss 35:19; 69:4. 15:26 Or
Comforter, or Encourager, or Counselor. Greek reads
Paraclete.
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