John 15:4

Jesus commands the disciples to remain in Him as He remains in them, since no branch bears fruit apart from the vine. Abiding union is essential to spiritual life.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
• John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• 2 Jn 1:9Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.
• John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
• John 15:5–7I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
• Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
• 1 Jn 2:24–28Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
• John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
• Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
• 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Rom 8:9–10But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
• John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Ezek 15:2–5“Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
• Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
• Hos 14:8Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
• Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Jude 1:20–21But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Cor 12:8–10Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
• Isa 27:10–11For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
• John 6:68–69Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Song 8:5Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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