John 15:3

You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

4Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

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Cross References

John 13:10Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

Ephesians 5:26So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

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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