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New Living Translation

John 15:3

You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given 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

Christian Standard Bible®
You are already clean
King James Version (1611)
Now ye are cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you.
King James Version
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
English Standard Version
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
New American Standard Bible
"You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
New Century Version
You are already clean because of the words I have spoken to you.
Amplified Bible
"You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Legacy Standard Bible
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Berean Standard Bible
You are already clean because of the word 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.
Darby Translation
Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
Easy-to-Read Version
You have already been prepared to produce more fruit by the teaching I have given 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.
Good News Translation
You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.
Lexham English Bible
You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Literal Translation
You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you.
American Standard Version
Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.
Bible in Basic English
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given 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 .
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe are ye cleane through the worde which I haue spoken vnto you.
English Revised Version
Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now ye ben clene, for the word that Y haue spokun to 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.
New English Translation
You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
New King James Version
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
New Life Bible
You are made clean by the words 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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
already ye are clean, because of the word that 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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all are pretty good already because of my message that you have believed.

Contextual Overview

1 "I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. 5 "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

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
I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
Genesis 13:16
And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted!
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer's army until he caught up with them at Dan.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 29:21
A servant pampered from childhood will become a rebel.
Proverbs 30:23
a bitter woman who finally gets a husband, a servant girl who supplants her mistress.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought slaves, both men and women, and others were born into my household. I also owned large herds and flocks, more than any of the kings who had lived in Jerusalem before me.
Jeremiah 12:1
Lord , you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. So let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?

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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