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Juan 15:4

4 Pabilin kamo kanako, ug pabilin ako kaninyo. Maingon nga ang sanga sa iya rang kaugalingon dili makabunga, gawas kon magapabilin kini sa tanum, sa ingon usab kamo dili makapamunga gawas kon magpabilini kamo kanako.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Branch;   Church;   Commandments;   Decision;   Fellowship;   Grape;   Jesus Continued;   Perseverance;   Pruning;   Righteous;   Righteousness;   Salvation;   Unfruitfulness;   Vine;   Works;   Scofield Reference Index - Abiding;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abiding in Christ;   Fellowship-Estrangement;   Inseparable Christ;   Nearness to God;   Vine;   The Topic Concordance - Abidance;   Bearing Fruit;   Choosing/chosen;   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 - Holiness;   Parables;   Privileges of Saints;   Saints, Compared to;   Steadfastness;   Union with Christ;   Works, Good;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Comforter;   Parable;   Vine;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Grapes;   Joy;   Perseverance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fruit;   Love;   Spirituality;   Union with Christ;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Union to Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Jesus Christ;   Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Branch;   John, the Gospel of;   Vine;   Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Christianity;   Communion;   Ethics;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Parable;   Prayer;   Sin;   Vine, Vineyard;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abiding;   Acceptance;   Allegory;   Attributes of Christ;   Body (2);   Brotherhood (2);   Character;   Communion (2);   Dependence;   Devotion;   Endurance;   Example;   Fall (2);   Force;   Headship;   Hunger;   Husbandman ;   Ideas (Leading);   Immanence ;   Impotence;   Influence;   Mansion ;   Mediator;   Metaphors;   Mission;   Nature and Natural Phenomena;   Necessity;   Oneness;   Parable;   Personality;   Poet;   Power;   Redemption (2);   Religious Experience;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Unity (2);   Vine, Allegory of the;   Worldliness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Vine, Vineyard;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abide;   Fruit;   Palm tree;   Pentecost;   Seal;   Walking;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Church;   Vine;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Vine,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fruit;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Vine;   Will;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Branch and Bough;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Name;   Salvation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 15;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 17;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for January 7;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Abide: John 6:68, John 6:69, John 8:31, Song of Solomon 8:5, Luke 8:15, Acts 11:23, Acts 14:22, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 1:23, Colossians 2:6, 1 Thessalonians 3:5, Hebrews 10:39, 1 John 2:6, 1 John 2:24-28, 2 John 1:9, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21

I: John 6:56, John 14:20, John 17:23, Romans 8:9, Romans 8:10, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Ephesians 3:17, Colossians 1:27

As: Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 27:11, Ezekiel 15:2-5, Hosea 14:8, 2 Corinthians 12:8-10, Galatians 2:20, Philippians 1:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:34 - General Numbers 35:28 - he should Proverbs 15:31 - abideth Matthew 12:33 - and his fruit good Mark 4:20 - which John 3:21 - that his John 6:53 - Except John 17:26 - and I Romans 11:22 - if thou 1 Corinthians 1:9 - the fellowship 2 Corinthians 12:2 - in Christ Philippians 4:1 - so Philippians 4:13 - can Colossians 2:7 - built Colossians 2:19 - nourishment 1 Thessalonians 3:8 - if 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - hold 1 John 2:27 - ye shall 1 John 3:6 - abideth 1 John 5:18 - keepeth 1 John 5:20 - and we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Abide in me, and I in you,.... The former of these is an exhortation to continue in the exercise of faith and love upon Christ, holding to him the head, cleaving to him with full purpose of heart, and so deriving life, grace, strength, and nourishment from him; the latter is a promise encouraging to the former; for as Christ is formed in the hearts of his people, he continues there as the living principle of all grace. And so,

as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me; which strongly expresses the necessity of abiding in Christ by fresh repeated acts of faith: and it is easy to observe, that when believers depart from Christ, though it be but partially, and for a time, for they cannot finally and totally depart from him, in what a poor, withered, fruitless condition they are, both in their frames and duties.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Abide in me - Remain united to me by a living faith. Live a life of dependence on me, and obey my doctrines, imitate my example, and constantly exercise faith in me.

And I in you - That is, if you remain attached to me, I will remain with you, and will teach, guide, and comfort you. This he proceeds to illustrate by a reference to the vine. If the branch should be cut off an instant, it would die and be fruitless. As long as it is in the vine, “from the nature of the case,” the parent stock imparts its juices, and furnishes a constant circulation of sap adapted to the growth and fruitfulness of the branch. So our piety, if we should be separate from Christ, or if we cease to feel our union to him and dependence on him, withers and droops. While we are united to him by a living faith, from the nature of the case, strength flows from him to us, and we receive help as we need. Piety then, manifested in good works, in love, and self-denial, is as natural, as easy, as unconstrained. and as lovely as the vine covered with fruitful branches is at once useful and enticing.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:4. Abide in me — Hold fast faith and a good conscience; and let no trials turn you aside from the truth. And I will abide in you-ye shall receive every help and influence from me that your souls can require, in order to preserve and save them to eternal life.

These two things are absolutely necessary to our salvation:

1. That we continue closely united to Christ by faith and love, and live in and to him.

2. That we continually receive from him the power to do good; for as the branch, however good in itself, cannot bear fruit from itself, through its own juice, which it has already derived from the tree, and can be no longer supported than it continues in union with the parent stock, neither can ye, unless ye abide in me. As the branch partakes of the nature of the tree, is nourished by its juice, and lives by its life, so ye must be made partakers of my Divine nature, be wise in my wisdom, powerful in my might, and pure through my holiness.


 
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