John 15:4
Good News Translation
Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.

New Revised Standard Version
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

Contemporary English Version
Stay joined to me, and I will stay joined to you. Just as a branch cannot produce fruit unless it stays joined to the vine, you cannot produce fruit unless you stay joined to me.

New American Bible
Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

Abide.

John 6:68,69 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. . . .

John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

Songs 8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.

Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Colossians 2:6 As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in him:

1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

1 John 2:6,24-28 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked. . . .

2 John 1:9 Whosoever revolteth and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

Jude 1:20,21 But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, . . .

I.

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

John 14:20 In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in me, and I in you.

John 17:23 I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

Romans 8:9,10 But you are not in the flesh, but the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

As.

Isaiah 27:10,11 For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches. . . .

Ezekiel 15:2-5 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests? . . .

Hosea 14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

2 Corinthians 12:8-10 For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me. . . .

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Context
Jesus the True Vine
3Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

John 6:56
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

1 John 2:6
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

John 15:3
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