John 15:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

If anyone does not abide 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

• 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.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Yf a man byde not in me he ys cast forthe as a braunche and is wyddered: and men gadder it and cast it into the fyre and it burneth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche, and it wythereth, and men gather it vp, and cast it in to the fyre, and it burneth.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branche, and withereth: and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burne.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Yf a man byde not in me, he is cast foorth as a braunch, and withereth, and men gather them, and cast them into the fyre, and they burne.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹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.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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.

• World English Bible (2000)

  If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:19 : 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
• John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.
• Heb 6:7-8 : 7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God: 8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.
• 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for 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 have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
• Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
• Matt 3:10 : 10 And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
• Ezek 15:3-7 : 3 Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will one take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is burned. Is it fit for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was not fit for any work: how much less shall it be fit for any work when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned? 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Like 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 you shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.
• 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 land. 14 And fire has gone out from a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
• Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Heb 10:27 : 27 But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.
• Ps 80:15 : 15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
• Isa 14:19 : 19 But you are cast out of your 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; like a carcass trodden under foot.
• Isa 27:10 : 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.
• Matt 27:5 : 5 And he threw 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 he shall go away.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.