John 15:4-6

15:4 Remain ¹  in me, and I will remain in you. ²  Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, ³  unless it remains ⁴  in ⁵  the vine, so neither can you unless you remain ⁶  in me.

15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains ⁷  in me – and I in him – bears ⁸  much fruit, ⁹  because apart from me you can accomplish ¹⁰  nothing. 15:6 If anyone does not remain ¹¹  in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, ¹²  and are burned up. ¹³ 

Acts 11:23

11:23 When ¹⁴  he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true ¹⁵  to the Lord with devoted hearts, ¹⁶ 

Acts 27:31

27:31 Paul said to the centurion ¹⁷  and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you ¹⁸  cannot be saved.”

Hebrews 3:14

3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence ¹⁹  firm until the end.

Hebrews 6:4-8

6:4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 6:5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6:6 and then have committed apostasy, ²⁰  to renew them again to repentance, since ²¹  they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again ²²  and holding him up to contempt. 6:7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on ²³  it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God. 6:8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; ²⁴  its fate is to be burned.

Hebrews 10:26-30

10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, ²⁵  10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ²⁶  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ²⁷  10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ²⁸  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹  10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ³⁰  the Son of God, and profanes ³¹  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ³²  and insults the Spirit of grace? 10:30 For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” ³³  and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ³⁴ 

Hebrews 10:39

10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ³⁵ 

[15:4]  ¹ tn Or “Reside.”

[15:4]  ² tn Grk “and I in you.” The verb has been repeated for clarity and to conform to contemporary English style, which typically allows fewer ellipses (omitted or understood words) than Greek.

[15:4]  ³ sn The branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains connected to the vine, from which its life and sustenance flows. As far as the disciples were concerned, they would produce no fruit from themselves if they did not remain in their relationship to Jesus, because the eternal life which a disciple must possess in order to bear fruit originates with Jesus; he is the source of all life and productivity for the disciple.

[15:4]  ⁴ tn Or “resides.”

[15:4]  ⁵ tn While it would be more natural to say “on the vine” (so NAB), the English preposition “in” has been retained here to emphasize the parallelism with the following clause “unless you remain in me.” To speak of remaining “in” a person is not natural English either, but is nevertheless a biblical concept (cf. “in Christ” in Eph 1:3, 4, 6, 7, 11).

[15:4]  ⁶ tn Or “you reside.”

[15:5]  ⁷ tn Or “resides.”

[15:5]  ⁸ tn Or “yields.”

[15:5]  ⁹ tn Grk “in him, this one bears much fruit.” The pronoun “this one” has been omitted from the translation because it is redundant according to contemporary English style.

[15:5]  ¹⁰ tn Or “do.”

[15:6]  ¹¹ tn Or “reside.”

[15:6]  ¹² sn Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire. The author does not tell who it is who does the gathering and throwing into the fire. Although some claim that realized eschatology is so prevalent in the Fourth Gospel that no references to final eschatology appear at all, the fate of these branches seems to point to the opposite. The imagery is almost certainly that of eschatological judgment, and recalls some of the OT vine imagery which involves divine rejection and judgment of disobedient Israel (Ezek 15:4-6, 19:12).

[15:6]  ¹³ tn Grk “they gather them up and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

[11:23]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “Antioch, who when.” The relative pronoun was omitted and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

[11:23]  ¹⁵ tn BDAG 883 s.v. προσμένω 1.a.β has “remain true to the Lord” for προσμένειν (prosmenein) in this verse.

[11:23]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “with purpose of heart”; BDAG 869 s.v. πρόθεσις 2.a translates this phrase “purpose of heart, i.e. devotion” here.

[27:31]  ¹⁷ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[27:31]  ¹⁸ sn The pronoun you is plural in Greek.

[3:14]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “the beginning of the confidence.”

[6:6]  ²⁰ tn Or “have fallen away.”

[6:6]  ²¹ tn Or “while”; Grk “crucifying…and holding.” The Greek participles here (“crucifying…and holding”) can be understood as either causal (“since”) or temporal (“while”).

[6:6]  ²² tn Grk “recrucifying the son of God for themselves.”

[6:7]  ²³ tn Grk “comes upon.”

[6:8]  ²⁴ tn Grk “near to a curse.”

[10:26]  ²⁵ tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.

[10:27]  ²⁶ tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

[10:27]  ²⁷ tn Grk “the enemies.”

[10:28]  ²⁸ tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ²⁹ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[10:29]  ³⁰ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

[10:29]  ³¹ tn Grk “regarded as common.”

[10:29]  ³² tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”

[10:30]  ³³ sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.

[10:30]  ³⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 32:36.

[10:39]  ³⁵ tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”