Thematic Bible: Pruning of


Thematic Bible



For before the harvest, when the season of budding is over, and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes, he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives, clearing away the spreading branches as he lops them off. Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches


Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up. Verse ConceptsFailureWarnings Against ApostasyCastawaysHell, As Incentive To ActionPrayerlessnessThrowing AwaySanctification, Means And ResultsUnfruitfulnessAbiding With GodPeople WitheredBurning PlantsBranches Of ChristUnconditional Love

Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, Verse ConceptsFellowship With ChristFellowship, In The GospelParticipation, In ChristSeparation From GodJoined To The ChurchGentilesOlive TreesJews

For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you, either. Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesNot Sparing

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