John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

Cross References (32)

  • Matthew 3:10 (78)

    The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown

  • Hebrews 12:10–11 (68)

    Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may sh

  • Matthew 15:13 (49)

    But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

  • Revelation 3:19 (37)

    Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

  • John 15:8 (34)

    This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

  • Luke 13:7–9 (30)

    So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tr

  • Hebrews 6:7–8 (20)

    For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended rece

  • Matthew 13:12 (19)

    Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken awa

  • Matthew 3:12 (18)

    His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn u

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 (18)

    Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless a

  • Philippians 1:9–11 (15)

    And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

  • Galatians 5:22–23 (14)

    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

  • Luke 8:13 (12)

    The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a

  • Job 17:9 (12)

    Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

  • Matthew 21:19 (12)

    Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!”

  • Hebrews 12:15 (11)

    See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de

  • John 15:16 (11)

    You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever

  • Malachi 3:3 (10)

    And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silve

  • Romans 5:3–5 (9)

    Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

  • Colossians 1:5–10 (8)

    the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of

  • Proverbs 4:18 (8)

    The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

  • Titus 2:14 (8)

    He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal

  • John 17:12 (8)

    While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost,

  • Psalms 51:7–13 (8)

    Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

  • 1 John 2:19 (8)

    They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us.

  • Romans 8:28 (6)

    And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpo

  • 1 Corinthians 13:1 (6)

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:17–18 (6)

    For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

  • Hosea 6:3 (5)

    So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the

  • Isaiah 29:19 (5)

    The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

  • Matthew 13:33 (5)

    He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measure

  • Isaiah 27:9 (4)

    Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all