John 15:4
Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
3You have already been pruned by the word I have spoken to you.
Cross References
Luke 8:15But the seed in the good soil are those who hear the word, hold fast to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.
John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Yoʋ 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 yoʋ in me, so that they may be perfected into one, and so that the world may know that yoʋ have sent me and have loved them just as yoʋ 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 →