John 15

Which worship songs are based on John 15?

  1. VINE — Kurtis Hoppie & Miles Minnick (2024) John 15:1-5

    The song repeatedly identifies Jesus as the true vine and portrays believers as receiving life and growth through him, directly invoking Jesus’ vine-and-branches teaching.

  2. Slower I Go (Live) — SEU Worship, Chelsea Plank (2024) John 15:1-2

    The request for God to prune the speaker invokes Jesus' vine imagery, in which the Father removes what is unfruitful and prunes fruitful branches for greater fruitfulness.

  3. One Thing (Prelude) — Rachel Morley (2025) John 15:1-2

    The portrayal of God as a gardener who prunes the believer closely reflects Jesus’ teaching about the Father pruning fruitful branches so that they bear more fruit.

  4. Abide — Housefires (2016) John 15:4-5

    The song directly adopts Jesus’ vine-and-branches image and repeatedly connects it with remaining in him. This unmistakably invokes Christ’s teaching that disciples depend upon continued union with him for spiritual life and fruitfulness.

  5. Make It Through — Sam Purpose (2023) John 15:4-5

    The image of remaining connected to the vine clearly invokes Jesus’ teaching that his disciples receive life and fruitfulness by abiding in him.

  6. Esandleni — Nontokozo Mkhize (2024) John 15:4

    The repeated prayer to remain in God and be preserved in that relationship closely reflects Jesus’ teaching about mutual abiding and dependence upon him.

  7. Shadow — Ariel Fitz-Patrick (2025) John 15:4-5

    The song links abiding in God with an admission of complete inability without him, closely reflecting Jesus' teaching that disciples must remain in him because they can accomplish nothing apart from him.

  8. Show Me Your Ways — Thrive Worship & Leeland (2023) John 15:4-5

    The opening verses closely draw on Jesus’ vine discourse by joining abiding in him with lasting fruit, prayer through his name, friendship with him, and self-sacrificial love.

  9. Be Thou My Vision — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2021) John 15:4

    The hymn’s reciprocal language of the believer remaining with God and God dwelling within the believer closely reflects Jesus’ teaching about mutual abiding.

  10. BIG G.O.D — Red Tips (2024) John 15:4-5

    The branch-and-vine language, together with abiding and bearing fruit, closely paraphrases Jesus' teaching that disciples remain fruitful only through union with him.

  11. Abide — Aaron Williams & Jon Reddick (2024) John 15:4-5

    The song explicitly applies Jesus’ vine-and-branches metaphor and joins it to the command to remain in him, emphasizing complete dependence upon Christ for spiritual life and fruitfulness.

  12. Like A Branch — Living Again (2026) John 15:5-6

    The speaker depicts separation from the addressee as a branch withering and becoming helpless, closely matching Jesus’ image of branches that cannot live or bear fruit apart from the vine.

  13. Abide — Aaron Williams & CAiN (2025) John 15:5

    The lyrics reference the imagery of being 'the branch' and 'You are the vine,' which paraphrases Jesus' teaching in John 15:5 about the relationship between Him and His followers, emphasizing dependence on Him for spiritual sustenance.

  14. underneath my skin — Matt Crocker (2025) John 15:5

    The lyrics express a deep dependency on Christ, resonating with the biblical declaration that apart from Him, one can do nothing, emphasizing the transformative relationship between the believer and Christ.

  15. heaven knows i tried — bodie (2025) John 15:5

    The lyrics express the sentiment that true fulfillment cannot be found outside of a relationship with God, echoing the message in John about abiding in Christ as the source of life.

  16. Canvas — Colton Dixon (2023) John 15:5

    The bridge directly adopts Jesus’ vine-and-branches metaphor, presenting God as the sustaining source and the singer as wholly dependent on him for life and fruitfulness.

  17. Don't Let Me Forget — Ben Fuller (2024) John 15:5

    The singer's confession of complete dependence on Jesus closely echoes Jesus' teaching that his disciples can accomplish nothing apart from him.

  18. My Transfiguration — Jon Guerra (2023) John 15:12-13

    The prayer to learn costly love through self-surrender closely echoes Jesus’ teaching that the greatest love is expressed by giving one’s life for others.

  19. LOVE LIKE YOU — MARTY (2024) John 15:12

    The chorus closely reflects Jesus' command that his followers pattern their love for others on the love he has shown them.

  20. Sure Been Good (Apple Music Session) [feat. Tiffany Hudson] — Elevation Worship (2024) John 15:13-15

    The paired references to Christ voluntarily laying down his life and calling the believer his friend strongly engage Jesus’ teaching that the greatest love is self-sacrifice for one’s friends and that his disciples are called friends.

  21. Best Friend — AWAKE84 (2024) John 15:13

    The description of Jesus as a friend who sacrifices his life closely reflects Jesus' teaching that the greatest love is shown by giving one's life for one's friends.

  22. I Am Thankful — Paul Baloche & Leslie Jordan (2020) John 15:13

    The bridge closely restates Jesus’ teaching that the greatest expression of love is voluntarily giving one’s life for others, applying it directly to Christ.

  23. Sins Of The Father (feat. Bon Iver) — Daniel Caesar & Bon Iver (2025) John 15:13

    The lyrics express a sentiment of sacrificial love, paralleling the idea that someone gave their life for others, which is a core message in John 15:13 about laying down one's life for friends.

  24. Baby Blue (feat. Norwill Simmonds) — Daniel Caesar & Norwill Simmonds (2025) John 15:13

    The question about whether any love is greater follows the account of Jesus giving his life, closely invoking Jesus' teaching that the greatest love is shown by laying down one's life for others.

  25. Have To Have You — Circuit Rider Music & Olivia Stern & Joshua Brennt (2025) John 15:14-15

    The song links willing obedience to friendship with Jesus, closely reflecting his teaching that those who follow his commands are his friends rather than merely servants.

  26. Have To Have You - Acoustic — Circuit Rider Music & Olivia Stern & Joshua Brennt (2025) John 15:14-15

    The song closely connects obedience to Christ with receiving friendship from him, reflecting Jesus’ description of obedient disciples as friends rather than merely servants.

  27. It's So Nice to Get to Know You — Shane & Shane (2024) John 15:15

    The song's central description of knowing Jesus personally as a friend closely reflects Jesus' declaration that his disciples are no longer merely servants but friends who know what he has shared with them.

  28. God Is Not Against Me - Radio Version — Elevation Worship (2024) John 15:15

    The description of the Savior naming the believer as his friend directly recalls Jesus telling his disciples that he calls them friends rather than servants.

  29. No Greater Love - As Featured in the Film "The Last Supper — Chris Tomlin (2025) John 15:15

    The song references the intimate relationship between Jesus and His followers, particularly the idea of Jesus calling His disciples 'friends,' which is a central theme in John 15:15.

  30. Somebody Say Amen — Kristian Stanfill (2025) John 15:15

    The singer thanks Jesus for granting him the relational status of a friend, closely echoing Jesus' declaration to his disciples in the Farewell Discourse.

  31. Purge — Bryson Gray (2021) John 15:18

    The comparison between hostility toward believers and prior hostility toward Christ closely paraphrases Jesus’ warning that the world hated him before it hated his followers.

John 15 (King James Version)

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

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.

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

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.

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.

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 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 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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.

11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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.

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.

17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

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.

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.

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.

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:

27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.