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John 15:3

"You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Branch;   Church;   Fellowship;   Grape;   Jesus Continued;   Pruning;   Regeneration;   Righteous;   Vine;   Word of God;   Works;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abiding in Christ;   Bible, the;   Cleansing;   Defilement-Cleansing;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   Nearness to God;   Purification of Heart;   Vine;   Word;   Word of God;   The Topic Concordance - Abidance;   Bearing Fruit;   Choosing/chosen;   Cleanness;   Comfort;   Disciples/apostles;   Enemies;   Friendship;   Happiness/joy;   Hate;   Hell;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Love;   Obedience;   Ordination;   Persecution;   Sacrifice;   Sending and Those Sent;   Servants;   Sin;   Truth;   Witness;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parables;   Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Comforter;   Parable;   Vine;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Grapes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit;   Love;   Spirituality;   Union with Christ;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   Blood;   Jesus Christ;   Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Branch;   John, the Gospel of;   Vine;   Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baptism;   Children (Sons) of God;   Ethics;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Parable;   Vine, Vineyard;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abiding;   Acceptance;   Allegory;   Body (2);   Brotherhood (2);   Communion (2);   Fall (2);   Happiness;   Husbandman ;   Ideas (Leading);   Immanence ;   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Logos;   Mediator;   Mission;   Nature and Natural Phenomena;   Oneness;   Parable;   Personality;   Purity (2);   Redemption (2);   Religious Experience;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Sacrifice (2);   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Spirit ;   Unity (2);   Vine, Allegory of the;   Word (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - John, the Gospel by;   Vine, Vineyard;   14 Word Words;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Pentecost;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Church;   Vine;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Vine,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Clean;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Laver;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Redeemer;   Regeneration;   Salvation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 16;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 17;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for January 7;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all are pretty good already because of my message that you have believed.
Legacy Standard Bible
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Bible in Basic English
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
Darby Translation
Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
New King James Version
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Christian Standard Bible®
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
World English Bible
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now ye are pure thro' the word which I have spoken to you.
Weymouth's New Testament
Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I have given you.
King James Version (1611)
Now ye are cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you.
Literal Translation
You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now are ye cleane, because of the worde, that I haue spoke vnto you.
Mace New Testament (1729)
you are already clean by the instructions I have given you.
American Standard Version
Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.
Revised Standard Version
You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Now are ye cleane thorow ye wordes which I have spoke vnto you.
Update Bible Version
Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.
Young's Literal Translation
already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;
New Century Version
You are already clean because of the words I have spoken to you.
New English Translation
You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Contemporary English Version
You are already clean because of what I have said to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned.
English Standard Version
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe are ye cleane through the worde, which I haue spoken vnto you.
George Lamsa Translation
You have already been pruned because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Hebrew Names Version
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
International Standard Version
You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.John 13:10; 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Peter 1:22;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Now are you clean because of the word which I have spoken with you.
Murdock Translation
Ye henceforth are clean, on account of the discourse I have held with you .
New Living Translation
You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.
New Life Bible
You are made clean by the words I have spoken to you.
English Revised Version
Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.
Berean Standard Bible
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
New Revised Standard
You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Already, ye, are, pure, because of the word which I have spoken unto you:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
King James Version
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Lexham English Bible
You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe are ye cleane through the worde which I haue spoken vnto you.
Easy-to-Read Version
You have already been prepared to produce more fruit by the teaching I have given you.
New American Standard Bible
"You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Good News Translation
You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now ye ben clene, for the word that Y haue spokun to you.

Contextual Overview

1"I am the true Vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2"Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit]. 3"You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].4"Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me. 5"I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for [otherwise] apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. 6"If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken off] branch, and withers and dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7"If you remain in Me and My words remain in you [that is, if we are vitally united and My message lives in your heart], ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. 8"My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 13:10, John 17:17, Ephesians 5:26, 1 Peter 1:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 19:18 - General Deuteronomy 12:28 - General Psalms 119:9 - by taking Proverbs 15:31 - abideth Mark 1:42 - immediately John 17:6 - they Acts 20:32 - to build Philippians 4:1 - so 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - effectually

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you [abundantly], And make your name great (exalted, distinguished); And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others];
Genesis 13:16
"I will make your descendants [as numerous] as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the [grains of] dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his nephew [Lot] had been captured, he armed and led out his trained men, born in his own house, [numbering] three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far [north] as Dan.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 29:21
He who pampers his slave from childhood Will find him to be a son in the end.
Proverbs 30:23
Under an unloved woman when she gets married, And under a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male and female slaves and had slaves born in my house. I also possessed herds and flocks larger than any who preceded me in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 12:1
You, O LORD are [uncompromisingly] righteous and consistently just when I plead my case with You; Yet let me discuss issues of justice with You: Why has the way of the wicked prospered? Why are those who deal in treachery (deceit) at ease and thriving?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.. These words being inserted in the discourse concerning the vine and branches, and the pruning and purging them to make them fruitful, are thought, by the learned Dr. Lightfoot, to be an allusion to the law in Leviticus 19:23; by which the fruit of trees, for the first three years, were accounted uncircumcised or unclean, and in the fourth year fit for use; concerning which the Talmudists have a whole tract, called ערלה, "Orla"; the apostles having enjoyed the ministry of Christ, and been his disciples about such a time. Though the "now" seems to refer to the removal and taking away of that withered and unfruitful branch, Judas. Christ, in John 13:10, had told his disciples, that they "were clean, but not all", because the betrayer was among them; but he being discovered by Christ, and ordered by him to be gone, went out from among them about his wicked design; and now Christ could say of them all, that they were clean: which may be understood of their regeneration and sanctification, in which their hearts were sprinkled with clean water; were washed with the washing of regeneration; had their hearts purified by faith in the blood of Christ, and had pure principles of grace formed in their souls; of all which the Gospel of Christ was the instrumental means: or of their justification by the righteousness of Christ, by which they were justified from all sin; and were all fair, and without spot; which was through the Gospel of Christ revealing his righteousness to them, or through the sentence of justification he, by his Spirit, passed upon their consciences.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now ye are clean - Still keeping up the figure καθαροί katharoi. It does not mean that they were perfect, but that they had been under a process of purifying by his instructions all the time he had been with them. He had removed their erroneous notions of the Messiah; he had gradually reclaimed them from their fond and foolish views respecting earthly honors; he had taught them to be willing to forsake all things; and he had so trained and disciplined them that immediately after his death they would be ready to go and bear fruit among all nations to the honor of his name. In addition to this, Judas had been removed from their number, and they were now all true followers of the Saviour. See the notes at John 13:10.

Through the word - By means of the teachings of Jesus while he had been with them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:3. Now ye are clean — καθαροι εστε, Ye are pruned. As our Lord has not changed the metaphor, it would be wrong to change the expression.

Through the word — δια τον λογος, Through that word-that doctrine of holiness which I have incessantly preached unto you, and which ye have received. Perhaps our Lord more immediately refers here to the words which he had spoken concerning Judas, John 13:21-30, in consequence of which Judas went out and finished his bargain with the chief priests; he being gone off, the body of the apostles vas purified; and thus he might say, Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.


 
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