John 15:8
In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
In Context
9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.
Cross References
Isaiah 60:21And your people will all be just. They will inherit the earth in perpetuity, the seedling of my planting, the work of my hand, so as to glorify me.
Haggai 1:8Ascend to the mountain, bring wood and build the house, and it shall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, says the Lord.
Matthew 5:44But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
John 8:31Therefore, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him: “If you will abide in my word, you will truly be my disciples.
John 15:5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.
1 Corinthians 10:31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.
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 →