John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he will take away. And each one that does bear fruit, he will cleanse, so that it may bring forth more fruit.
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In The King James Version
In Context
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
3You are clean now, because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Cross References
Job 17:9And the just will cling to his way, and clean hands will increase strength.
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just is like a shining light: it advances and increases, even to the day of completion.
Isaiah 29:19And the meek will increase their rejoicing in the Lord, and the poor among men will exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Malachi 3:3And he will sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he will purge the sons of Levi, and he will gather them like gold and like silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.
Matthew 3:12His winnowing fan is in his hand. And he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Matthew 13:33He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of fine wheat flour, until it was entirely 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 →