John 15:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐὰν μή τις μείνῃ ἐν ἐμοί, ἐβλήθη ἔξω ὡς τὸ κλῆμα, καὶ ἐξηράνθη· καὶ συνάγουσιν αὐτὰ, καὶ εἰς τὸ πῦρ βάλλουσιν, καὶ καίεται.

Transliteration

Ean mē tis meinē en emoi, eblēthē exō hōs the klēma, and exēranthē; and sunagousin auta, and into the pur ballousin, and kaietai.

Grammar Details

• *Ean mē*: conditional + negative - if not/unless
• *tis*: indefinite pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - anyone
• *meinē*: aorist subjunctive, active, third person singular - he remains
• *en emoi*: preposition + dative - in me
• *eblēthē*: aorist indicative, passive, third person singular - he was thrown/cast
• *exō*: adverb - outside/out
• *hōs*: comparative particle - as/like
• *klēma*: nominative/accusative, neuter, singular - branch
• *exēranthē*: aorist indicative, passive, third person singular - it was dried up/withered
• *sunagousin*: present indicative, active, third person plural - they gather
• *auta*: accusative, neuter, plural pronoun - them
• *pur*: accusative, neuter, singular - fire
• *ballousin*: present indicative, active, third person plural - they throw/cast
• *kaietai*: present indicative, passive, third person singular - it is burned

Word Meanings

• *meinē*: remains/abides/stays
• *eblēthē*: was thrown/cast out/discarded
• *exēranthē*: withered/dried up/became dry
• *sunagousin*: gather/collect/assemble
• *ballousin*: throw/cast/put
• *kaietai*: is burned/consumed by fire

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:19 : 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
• John 15:2 : 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.
• Heb 6:7-8 : 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
• 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
• Matt 3:10 : 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
• Ezek 15:3-7 : 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
• Ezek 19:12-14 : 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
• Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Heb 10:27 : 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
• Ps 80:15 : 15 And the vineyard{H8798)} which thy right hand hath planted{H8804)}, and the branch that thou madest strong{H8765)} for thyself.
• Isa 14:19 : 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
• Isa 27:10 : 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
• Matt 27:5 : 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
• Job 15:30 : 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.