John 15:2-6
15:2 He takes away
every branch that does not bear
fruit in me. He
prunes
every branch that bears
fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
15:3 You are clean already
because of the word that I have spoken to you.
15:4 Remain
in me, and I will remain in you.
Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it remains
in
the vine, so neither can you unless you remain
in me.
15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.
15:6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.