John 15:2
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
1I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.
3Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
Cross References
Job 17:9And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.
Isaiah 29:19And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Malachi 3:3And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.
Matthew 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
Matthew 13:33Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was 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 →