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A Warning to False Professors
Commentators agree this verse is not about true believers losing their salvation. Instead, it is a solemn warning to those with only an outward or professed faith. Like a branch that looks attached but lacks a vital connection, a 'nominal Christian' without a genuine union with Jesus will eventually be revealed as fruitless and face judgment.
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Albert Barnes
On John 15:6
18th Century
Theologian
If a man abide not in me. See John 15:4. If a man is not truly united to him by faith, and does not live with a continual sense of his dep…
AT Robertson
On John 15:6
He is cast forth (εβληθη εξω). Timeless or gnomic use of the first aorist passive indicative of βαλλω as the conclusion of a third…
Charles Ellicott
On John 15:6
19th Century
Bishop
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch . . .—The thought passes from the fruitful to the sterile branch, from the man who …
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 15:5–6
19th Century
Preacher
For without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them i…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 15:6
Failure to maintain a vital connection brings its own penalty—rejection and uselessness. Since the Greek text literally reads “the branch,” there m…
John Calvin
On John 15:6
16th Century
Theologian
If any one abide not in me. He again sets before them the punishment for ingratitude, and by doing so, encourages and urges them to persev…
John Gill
On John 15:6
17th Century
Pastor
If a man abide not in me
Christ does not say, "if ye abide not in me"; he would not suppose this of his true discipl…
Matthew Henry
On John 15:1–8
17th Century
Minister
Jesus Christ is the Vine, the true Vine. The union of the human and Divine natures, and the fullness of the Spirit that is in Him, resemble the roo…