John 15:7

If 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

In Context

6A 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.

8The way my Father is honored is by your {The way you honor my Father is by} doing much that pleases him [MET], and by doing that, you will show that you are my disciples.

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Cross References

Job 22:26you will be happy because of your close relationship with God, and you will be able to approach him [IDM] confidently.

Psalms 37:4Be delighted with all that Yahweh does for you; if you do that, he will give you the things that you desire most.

Proverbs 4:4my father told me, “Remember my words; if you obey my commandments, you will live a long time.

Isaiah 58:8If you do those things, what you do for others will be like [SIM] a light that shines when it dawns. The troubles that have been caused by your sins will end quickly. Others will know about your righteous behavior, and with my glorious presence I will protect you from behind like I protected the Israeli people when they left Egypt.

Matthew 7:7“Keep asking God for what you need. If you do that, he will give it to you. Confidently keep expecting God to give you the things that you need, and he will give them to you. It will be like [MET] looking for what you need and finding it. Keep on praying persistently to God. Then God will answer you. It will be like [MET] knocking on a door in order to enter a room. And the way will be opened { God will open the way} for you to get what you pray for.

John 14:13And whatever you, using my authority, ask me to do, I will do it, in order that I can show you how great my Father is.

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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