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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.

Context of John 15:6

4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 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. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be 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 the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
• Psalms 80:15the root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.
• Isaiah 14:19But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
• Isaiah 27:10The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
• Ezekiel 15:3Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?
• Ezekiel 17:9“Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.
• Ezekiel 19:12But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.
• Matthew 3:10The ax is already 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 out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
• Matthew 27:5So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
• Hebrews 6:7Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.
• Hebrews 10:27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
• 2 Peter 2:20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
• 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
• Jude 1:12These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.

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