John 15:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Vine

Same

Can

General references

1 Corinthians 3:7

Bible References

Vine

so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.

The cup of blessing, which we bless, is that not participating in the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is that not participating in the body of Christ?

As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.

come to him then ??come to that living Stone which men have rejected and God holds choice and precious,

Same

Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears rich fruit.

And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none.

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

(for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is.

all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of our Lord.

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory now and to the day of eternity: Amen.

Can

So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

(Fail or succeed, I cannot work against the truth but for it!)

In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

General references

So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow.