John 15:4
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 8:5Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
Ezekiel 15:2“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 14:20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united and that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
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 →