John 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
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In Context
3You are already clean because of the message that I have spoken to you.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 8:5Who is this who is coming up from the wilderness, 1 leaning on her beloved? The woman speaking to the man 1 I awakened you under the apricot tree; 1 there your mother conceived you; 1 there she gave birth to you, she delivered you. 1
Ezekiel 15:2“Son of man, how is a vine better than any tree with branches that is among the trees in a forest?
Luke 8:15But the seed that fell on the good soil, these are the ones who, hearing the word with an honest and good heart, hold it securely and bear fruit with patient endurance.
John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life,
John 14:20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
John 17:23I in them, and you in me—that they may be brought to complete unity, so that the world will know that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you 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 →