11 translations · Greek
John 15:1
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
John 15:1 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
- KJV King James Version
- I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
- ASV American Standard Version
- I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;
- DBY Darby Translation
- I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἐγώ | Egō | I | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| εἰμι | eimi | am | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ἡ | hē | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἄμπελος | ampelos | vine | G288 ἄμπελος vine |
| ἡ | hē | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀληθινή | alēthinē | true | G228 ἀληθινός true |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Πατήρ | Patēr | Father | G3962 πατήρ father |
| μου | mou | My | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| ὁ | ho | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| γεωργός | geōrgos | keeper of the vineyard | G1092 γεωργός farmer |
| ἐστιν | estin | is | G1510 εἰμί to be |
Related verses
- Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Isaiah 27:2–3
In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard! I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
- Isaiah 60:21
Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
- Psalm 80:8–19
You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it. You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land. The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars. …
- Isaiah 4:2
In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
- John 6:55
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
- Isaiah 5:1–7
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard. …
- Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
- Hosea 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Read all of John 15 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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