John 15:6

John 15:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
• English Standard Version (ESV)If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
• New King James Version (NKJV)If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Context of John 15:6

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. 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. 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.

John 15:6 word by word

ἐὰν μή τις μένῃ ἐν ἐμοί, ἐβλήθη ἔξω ὡς τὸ κλῆμα καὶ ἐξηράνθη, καὶ συνάγουσιν αὐτὰ καὶ εἰς τὸ πῦρ βάλλουσιν, καὶ καίεται.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• a manτιςtis · oneG5100
• abideμένωmenō · to stayG3306
• notμήmē · notG3361
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• meἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• he is castβάλλωballō · to throw: throwG906
• forthἔξωexō · out/outside(r)G1854
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• a branchὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• a branchκλῆμαklēma · branchG2814
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• is witheredξηραίνωxērainō · to dryG3583
• men gatherσυνάγωsunagō · to assembleG4863
• themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• the fireπῦρpur · fireG4442
• they are burnedκαίωkaiō · to kindle/burnG2545

Cross-references for John 15:6

• Job 15:30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.
• Psalms 80:15the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!
• Isaiah 14:19But 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.
• Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.
• Ezekiel 15:3Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?
• Ezekiel 17:9“‘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.
• Ezekiel 19:12But 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.
• Matthew 3:10Even 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.
• Matthew 7:19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
• Matthew 13:41The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.
• Matthew 27:5So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
• Hebrews 6:7For 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.
• Hebrews 10:27but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
• 2 Peter 2:20For 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 2:19They 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.
• Jude 1:12These 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;

Commentaries on John 15:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6If a man abide not in me - Our Lord in the plainest manner intimates that a person may as truly be united to him as the branch is to the tree that produces it, and yet be afterwards cut off and cast into the fire; because he has not brought forth fruit to the glory of his God. No man can cut off a branch from a tree to which that branch was never united: it is absurd, and contrary to the letter and spirit of the metaphor, to talk of being seemingly in…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6If a man, abide not in me - See John 15:4. If a man is not truly united to him by faith, and does not live with a continual sense of his dependence on him. This doubtless refers to those who are professors of religion, but who have never known anything of true and real connection with him. Is cast forth - See the notes at John 15:2. Also Matthew 8:12; Matthew 22:13. Is withered - Is dried up. A branch cut off withers. So of a soul unconnected with Christ…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6\Anyone who does not remain in Christ is separated from the vine and its life. A living branch produces clusters of grapes (15:5). Connection with the vine allows the life of Jesus to flow fruitfully through the disciple. Those who claim to be attached to Christ but yield no fruit are useless and will be burned.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-8. The spiritual oneness of Christ and His people, and His relation to them as the Source of all their spiritual life and fruitfulness, are here beautifully set forth by a figure familiar to Jewish ears (Is 5:1, &c.). I am the true vine--of whom the vine of nature is but a shadow. my Father is the husbandman--the great Proprietor of the vineyard, the Lord of the spiritual kingdom. (It is surely unnecessary to point out the claim to supreme divinity…Read the comment

Topics related to John 15:6

• Apostasy
• Backsliders
• Branch
• Church
• Contingencies
• Fellowship
• Hypocrisy
• Jesus, the Christ
• Pruning
• Righteous
• Unfruitfulness
• Works

In the dictionaries

• Branch
• Cloke
• Herein
• Atonement
• Branch ;bough
• Comforter
• Communion; (fellowship)
• Holy Spirit
• Jesus Christ
• Johannine Theology

Commentaries on John 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings