John 15:2
He cuts off every one of my branches that doesn't bear fruit. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so it can bear even more.
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In Context
1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
3You are already pruned and made clean through what I've told you.
Cross References
Job 17:9Those who are right keep going, and those whose hands are clean grow stronger and stronger.
Proverbs 4:18The way of life of the good is like the light of the sunrise, glowing brighter and brighter until the full light of day shines out.
Isaiah 29:19The humble will be even happier in the Lord, and the poor will find their joy in the Holy One of Israel.
Malachi 3:3He will sit down like a refiner who purifies silver; he will purify Levi's descendants and refine them like gold and silver so they can present pure offerings to the Lord.
Matthew 3:12He has his winnowing tool ready in his hand. He will clean up the threshing floor and gather the wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with fire that can't be put out.”
Matthew 13:33He told them another illustrated story: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman mixed with a large quantity of flour, until all the dough was raised.”
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 →