John 15:2

The Father removes fruitless branches and prunes fruitful ones so they bear more. God cultivates genuine, growing fruitfulness in His people.

Cross-references · 32

• Matt 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
• Heb 12:10–11Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
• Matt 15:13But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
• Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
• John 15:8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
• Luke 13:7–9So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
• Heb 6:7–8For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
• Matt 13:12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
• Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
• 1 Th 5:23–24Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Phil 1:9–11And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
• Luke 8:13The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
• Matt 21:19Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
• Heb 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
• John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• Mal 3:3And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
• Rom 5:3–5Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
• Ps 51:7–13Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• Col 1:5–10the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel
• John 17:12While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• 1 Cor 13:1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
• Rom 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
• 2 Cor 4:17–18For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
• Isa 29:19The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
• Matt 13:33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
• Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Isa 27:9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

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