John 15:6

A gardener cuts off and throws away useless branches. Then, after they dry up, he picks them up and throws them into a fire and burns them [SIM]. Similarly, everyone who does not remain having a close relationship with me, God will get rid of.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

In Context

5I am like [MET] a vine. You are like [MET] the branches. All those who have a close relationship with me and with whom I have a close relationship will do much that pleases God, like [MET] a vine that bears much fruit. Remember that you can do nothing [HYP] that truly pleases God without my help.

7If you remain having a close relationship with me and you keep living in accordance with my message, you can ask God to do anything for you, and he will do it.

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Cross References

Job 15:30They will not escape from the darkness of death; they will be like trees whose branches are burned by fire and whose blossoms are blown away by the wind.

Isaiah 14:19but your corpse will not be buried; it will be thrown away like [SIM] a worthless branch of a tree. Your corpse will be under a heap of other corpses of soldiers that were killed by their enemies’ swords, and their corpses were not buried; you will be with those who have gone down to the stony ground in a big pit.

Ezekiel 15:3No one [RHQ] ever takes a branch of a grapevine and makes anything useful from it. No one [RHQ] even makes pegs from them to hang things on.

Ezekiel 19:12But Yahweh became very angry, so he pulled up the vine by its roots and threw it on the ground, where the very hot winds from the desert dried up all its fruit. The strong branches wilted and were burned in a fire.

Matthew 7:19And all the trees that do not produce good fruit are chopped down and burned in a fire {people chop them down and burn them in a fire} to get rid of them. Similarly, those who falsely claim to be prophets will be thrown { God will throw false prophets} into the fires of hell.

Matthew 27:5So Judas took the money and threw it inside the Temple. Then 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 →

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