John 15:2
Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he removes it. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1I am the TRUE grapevine, and my Father is the farmer.
3Now ye are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Cross References
Job 17:9Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
Isaiah 29:19The meek also shall increase their joy in LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Malachi 3:3And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver. And they shall offer to LORD offerings in righteousness.
Matthew 3:12Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Matthew 13:33He spoke another parable to them. The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which having taken, a woman hid in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.
Matthew Henry on John 15:2-9
Christ the True Vine. 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… Read the whole commentary →