John 15:4

Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3Now are you pure, through the word which I have spoken to you.

5I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

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Cross References

Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are those who, in a good and honest heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

John 6:68Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life;

John 14:20In that clay you shall know that I am in my Father, arid you in me, and I in you.

John 17:23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

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 →

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