John 15:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

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  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 2 Pet 1:2-9 : 2 May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3 Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue; 4 And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh. 5 So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, 6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, 7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. 8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins. 10 For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall: 11 For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 12 For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith. 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15 And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death. 16 For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory. 17 For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice came from heaven even to our ears, when we were with him on the holy mountain.
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.
  • Acts 4:12 : 12 And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.
  • John 5:19 : 19 So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
  • John 9:33 : 33 If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.
  • Luke 13:6-9 : 6 And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit. 7 And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space? 8 And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile: 9 And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.
  • 2 Cor 13:8 : 8 Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.
  • 2 Cor 9:10 : 10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;
  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
  • Col 1:6 : 6 Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;
  • 1 Pet 2:4 : 4 To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
  • John 12:24 : 24 Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
  • Rom 12:5 : 5 So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;
  • 1 Cor 10:16 : 16 The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?
  • 1 Cor 12:12 : 12 For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.
  • 1 Cor 12:27 : 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

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    1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

    2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

    3 You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.

    4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

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    6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

    7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

    8 Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

    9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

    10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

    11 I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

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    16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

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    18 It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.

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    17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

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    10 Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

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    43 For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

    44 For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

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    56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

    57 As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

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    10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

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    9 And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

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    15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

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    38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

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    23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

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    3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

    4 Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

    5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

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    1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill: