John 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Cross References
Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God`s] mouth shall he go away.
Isaiah 14:19But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
Ezekiel 15:3Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
Ezekiel 19:12But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
Matthew 7:19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
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 →