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If a man doesn`t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
He is cast forth (εβληθη εξω). Timeless or gnomic use of the first aorist passive indicative of βαλλω as the conclusion of a third…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
Failure to maintain a vital connection brings its own penalty—rejection and uselessness. Since the Greek text literally reads “the branch,” there m…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
In this discourse, our Lord especially wants to comfort His disciples about two things. The first was near and present: His passion. The …
