John 15:2 Cross References - Thomson

² Every branch in me which beareth not fruit, he loppeth off; and every branch which beareth fruit he cleaneth to make it more fruitful.

⁹ Now the righteous should prevail over the wicked: and he who is faithful should hold on his way: and he who hath clean hands should take courage.

⁷ Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be purified; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ⁸ Cause me to hear joy and gladness; let the bones, which have been humbled, rejoice. ⁹ Turn away thy face from my sins; and blot out all mine iniquities. ¹⁰ Create in me, God, a pure heart; and renew a right spirit within me. ¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me. ¹² Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and support me with a becoming spirit, ¹³ that I may teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners may turn to thee.

¹⁸ But the paths of the just shine like light; shining more and more until it is perfect day.

⁹ [J] By means of this the iniquity of Jacob will be removed: and this will be to him a subject of thanksgiving, when I take away his sin: when they grind to powder all the hewn stones of their altars, and their groves no longer remain, and their idols hacked to pieces like a forest are far away.

¹⁹ and the distressed shall exult with joy because of the Lord; and the disconsolate among men shall be filled with joy.

³ Let us acknowledge; let us continue our pursuit to know the Lord; sure as the morning we shall find him. He will come like rain for us; like the former and latter rain for the earth."

³ He will sit refining and purifying and will purify the sons of Levi like the silver and gold, and melt them like the gold and silver. Then shall they offer to the Lord a sacrifice in righteousness

¹⁰ Now the axe is at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore which doth not produce good fruit is to be cut down and cast into the fire.

¹² His winnowing instrument is in his hand. He will thoroughly clean his floor, and gather his wheat for the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

¹² For to him who improveth, more shall be given and he shall abound: but from him who improveth not, even that which he hath shall be taken.

³³ Another parable he stated to them, saying, The reign of the heavens is like leaven which a woman took and covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

¹³ In reply to which he said, Every plant which my heavenly father hath not planted, is to be rooted up.

¹⁹ and seeing a fig tree near the way, he went to it and found nothing thereon but leaves. Whereupon he saith to it, Henceforward let no fruit ever grow on thee. And immediately the fig tree withered.

¹³ By the rocky ground are meant those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but not having it rooted in them, they are but temporary believers, and in time of trial apostatise.

⁷ Whereupon he said to the vine dresser, Behold this is the third year that I have come, seeking fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why doth it cumber the ground? ⁸ To which he replied, Master, let it alone one year longer, until I dig about it and dung it. ⁹ Perhaps it may bear fruit: if not; then cut it down.

⁸ by this my Father is glorified. That you may bear much fruit, you must be my disciples.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me; but it was I who chose you, and placed you that you may go forth bearing fruit, and that your fruit may continue, that the Father may give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Them whom thou gavest to me I have guarded, and none of them is lost, unless it be the son of perdition, so that the scripture is fulfilled;

³ And not only so, but we boast also in our tribulations, as we know that tribulation operateth to produce patience; ⁴ and patience, a proof; and proof, a hope; ⁵ and this hope will not shame us, because the love of God is diffused through our hearts by a Holy Spirit, which is given us.

²⁸ And we know that all things are working together for good to them who love God"to them who according to a previous purpose are now actually called.

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, if I have not love, I am but a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal;

¹⁷ For this momentary and light affliction of ours is working out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression, ¹⁸ while we are aiming not at things seen, but at things unseen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.

²² But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such things there is no law.

⁹ and this I pray that your love may abound still more and more, in knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰ that you may prove the things which differ"that you may be sincere and inoffensive till the day of Christ, ¹¹ filled with fruits of righteousness, which are by means of Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

⁵ on account of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before by the true word of the gospel, ⁶ which is come to you as it hath also to all the world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it doth among you, from the day you heard and acknowledged the favour of God in truth, ⁷ as you learned it from Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of the Christ, ⁸ and the person who informed us of your love in spirit. ⁹ For this cause, we indeed, from the day we heard of it do not cease praying for you, and requesting, in order that you may be filled, in respect to the acknowledgment of his will ¹⁰ with all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthy of the Lord, to all well pleasing. By every good work we bear fruit, and grow up for the acknowledgment of God;

²³ And may the God of this peace himself sanctify you entirely! And may the whole of you: the spirit and the soul, and the body, be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ He who calleth you is faithful, and will do this.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁷ For ground which drinketh up the rain that frequently falleth on it, and produceth plants fit for the use of them for whom it is cultivated, receiveth a blessing from God; ⁸ but that which produceth briars and thorns is rejected, and near a curse, the end of which is for burning.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all correction seemeth, for the present, not to be matter of joy, but of grief; yet afterwards it produceth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised therewith.

¹⁵ watching diligently that none fall short of the favour of God"that no root of bitterness spring up and occasion trouble, and many be defiled by it

¹⁹ They went out from us; but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.

¹⁹ Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and reform.