John 15:5 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

⁶ He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any. ⁷ And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?' ⁸ He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it; ⁹ perhaps it will bear fruit next year. But if it does not, you can have it cut down.' "

¹⁹ So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

³³ If this man were not from God, he could not do anything."

²⁴ I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

¹² There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

²² But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

⁴ So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

⁵ so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

¹⁶ Does not the consecrated cup which we bless mean that in drinking it we share in the blood of Christ? Does not the bread that we break mean that in eating it we share in the body of Christ?

¹² For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

²⁷ Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

¹⁰ He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

⁸ For I cannot do anything against the truth, but only for it.

²² But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

¹¹ with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

¹³ I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

¹⁷ Not that I want your gifts, but I want you to have the profits that will accumulate to your credit.

⁶ came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

¹⁰ so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow.

⁴ Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God,

² God bless you and give you perfect peace through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. ³ For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him. ⁴ Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature. ⁵ For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, ⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love. ⁸ For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble, ¹¹ for then you will be triumphantly admitted to the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ¹² Therefore I will always remind you of this, although you know it and are firmly grounded in the truth that you have. ¹³ Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder, ¹⁴ for I know that I must soon put it away, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. ¹⁵ I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind. ¹⁶ For they were no fictitious stories that we followed when we informed you of the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and of his coming, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷ For when he was so honored and glorified by God the Father and from the supreme glory there were borne to him such words as these: "This is my Son, my Beloved! He is my Chosen!"— ¹⁸ we heard these words borne from heaven when we were with him on that sacred mountain.

¹⁸ You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.