Jesus the True Vine
(Isaiah 27:1–13)
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. Jer 2:21Isa 27:2-31Co 3:9Isa 60:21Psa 80:8-19Isa 4:2Jhn 6:55Isa 5:1-7 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. Mat 3:10Heb 12:10-11Mat 15:13Rev 3:19Jhn 15:8Luk 13:7-9Heb 6:7-8Mat 13:12 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Jhn 17:17Eph 5:261Pe 1:22Jhn 13:10 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. 1Jn 2:6Gal 2:20Jhn 8:312Jn 1:9Jhn 6:56Jhn 15:5-7Php 1:111Jn 2:24-28
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. Php 4:13Col 1:10Jhn 15:16Gal 5:22Pro 11:302Co 13:8Jhn 5:19Jas 1:17 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned. Mat 7:19Heb 6:7-8Mat 13:41Jhn 15:2Mat 3:102Pe 2:20Heb 10:271Jn 2:19 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. Psa 37:41Jn 5:14Jhn 14:131Jn 3:22Jhn 15:16Mat 7:7Jhn 16:23Gal 5:16 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples. Mat 5:16Jhn 8:31Php 1:112Co 9:10-15Jhn 15:5Psa 92:12-151Pe 4:11Jhn 13:35
No Greater Love
As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. Jhn 17:23-24Jhn 17:261Jn 2:28Jhn 15:13Rev 1:5Jhn 15:11Eph 3:18Jud 1:20 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. Jhn 14:151Jn 5:31Jn 3:21-241Jn 2:52Pe 2:211Jn 2:1-2Jhn 4:34Jhn 8:29 I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. Rom 15:13Jhn 17:13Jhn 16:241Jn 1:41Pe 1:8Jhn 16:332Jn 1:121Th 5:16
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 1Jn 4:211Pe 4:8Jhn 13:34Eph 5:2Rom 12:101Jn 3:231Pe 3:81Pe 1:22 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Jhn 10:11Eph 5:2Rom 5:6-8Jhn 10:151Jn 4:7-11
You are My friends if you do what I command you. Mat 12:501Jn 5:3Jas 2:23Jhn 14:21Jhn 14:15Jhn 13:17Luk 12:4Isa 41:8 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. Psa 25:141Co 2:9-12Mat 13:11Jas 2:23Col 1:26Rev 1:1Gen 18:17-19Eph 3:5 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 you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. Jer 1:5-7Jhn 15:19Eph 2:102Ti 3:15-171Jn 4:19Gal 1:15Luk 6:13Act 22:14 This is My command to you: Love one another. Jhn 15:121Jn 3:14-171Pe 2:17
The Hatred of the World
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. 1Jn 3:13Jhn 7:7Luk 6:22Jhn 3:20Mrk 13:13Mat 10:221Jn 3:1Mat 5:11 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 1Jn 4:4-5Jhn 17:14-16Eph 1:4-11Tit 3:3-71Jn 5:19-20Eph 2:2-5Jhn 15:161Pe 2:9-12
Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ 1 If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. 2Ti 3:12Jhn 13:16Mat 10:24Ezk 3:71Co 4:122Co 4:9Act 4:27-30Isa 53:1-3 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me. Mat 10:22Jhn 16:3Jhn 8:19Mat 10:18Mat 24:91Pe 4:13-14Act 5:41Isa 66:5 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. Jhn 9:41Jas 4:17Act 17:30Rom 1:20Jhn 12:48Ezk 33:31-331Pe 2:16Heb 6:4-8
Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. 1Jn 2:232Jn 1:9Jhn 8:40-42 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. Jhn 14:9Jhn 5:36Jhn 10:32Jhn 10:37Jhn 7:31Jhn 9:32Deu 5:9Heb 2:3-4 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’ 2 Psa 109:3Psa 69:4Psa 35:19Luk 24:442Co 11:72Th 3:8Gal 2:21Jhn 10:34
When the Advocate 3comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me. Jhn 14:26Jhn 14:16-17Jhn 16:13-15Act 5:32Act 2:32-33Act 15:81Jn 5:6-10Luk 24:49 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning. 1Jn 4:14Act 10:39-42Jhn 21:24Luk 24:481Jn 1:1-2Act 23:11Luk 1:2-31Pe 5:1