John 15:6

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.

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  • Matt 7:19 : 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
  • John 15:2 : 2 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
  • Heb 6:7-8 : 7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
  • Matt 13:41 : 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.
  • Matt 3:10 : 10 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
  • Ezek 15:3-7 : 3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on? 4 No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything? 5 Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred? 6 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire– so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel. 7 I will set my face against them– although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
  • Ezek 17:9 : 9 “‘Say to them: This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Will it prosper? Will he not rip out its roots and cause its fruit to rot and wither? All its foliage will wither. No strong arm or large army will be needed to pull it out by its roots.
  • Ezek 19:12-14 : 12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered– a fire consumed them. 13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. 14 A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’ This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”
  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Heb 10:27 : 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
  • Ps 80:15 : 15 the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!
  • Isa 14:19 : 19 But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.
  • Matt 27:5 : 5 So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

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    1The Vine and the Branches“I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

    2He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

    3You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

    4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

    5“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • John 15:7-8
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    7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

    8My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

  • Matt 3:10
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    10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Luke 13:9
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    9Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

  • Ezek 15:2-6
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    2“Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine?

    3Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

    4No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

    5Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

    6“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire– so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel.

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    8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

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    13And he replied,“Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

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    16If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.

    17Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,

    18do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

    19Then you will say,“The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

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    21For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

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    5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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    33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

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    30Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

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    23Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

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    23And even they– if they do not continue in their unbelief– will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

  • Luke 3:17
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    17His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

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    53Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

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    10If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

  • John 6:56
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    56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

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    16You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they?

    17In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.

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    15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

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    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

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    21But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

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    33In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

  • Mark 12:8
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    8So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.

  • Ps 80:16
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    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • Mark 4:6
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    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

  • Job 15:30
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    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.