John 15:1
I am the true vine — So the true bread, John 6:32; that is, the most excellent.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am the true vine — So the true bread, John 6:32; that is, the most excellent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Every one that beareth fruit, he purifieth — by obeying the truth, 1 Peter 1:22; and by inward or outward sufferings, Hebrews 12:10. So purity and fruitfulness help each other. That it may bear more fruit — For this is one of the noblest rewards God can bestow on former acts of obedience, to make us... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye are clean — All of you, to whom I now speak, are purged from the guilt and power of sin; by the word — Which, applied by the Spirit, is the grand instrument of purifying the soul.... [ Continue Reading ]
Abide in me — Ye who are now pure by living faith, producing all holiness; by which alone ye can be in me.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am the vine, ye are the branches — Our Lord in this whole passage speaks of no branches but such as are, or at least were once, united to him by living faith.... [ Continue Reading ]
If any one abide not in me — By living faith; not by Church communion only. He may thus abide in Christ, and be withered all the time, and cast into the fire at last. He is cast out — Of the vineyard, the invisible Church. Therefore he was in it once.... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye abide in me, ye shall ask — Prayers themselves are a fruit of faith, and they produce more fruit.... [ Continue Reading ]
So shall ye be my disciples — Worthy of the name. To be a disciple of Christ is both the foundation and height of Christianity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Abide ye in my love — Keep your place in my affection. See that ye do not forfeit that invaluable blessing. How needless a caution, if it were impossible for them not to abide therein?... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love — On these terms, and no other, ye shall remain the objects of my special affection.... [ Continue Reading ]
That my joy might remain in you — The same joy which I feel in loving the Father, and keeping his commandments.... [ Continue Reading ]
Your joy will be full, if ye so love one another.... [ Continue Reading ]
Greater love — To his friends. He here speaks of them only.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you — On this condition, not otherwise. A thunderbolt for Antinomianism! Who then dares assert that God's love does not at all depend on man's works?... [ Continue Reading ]
All things — Which might be of service to you.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye — My apostles, have not chosen me, but I have chosen you — As clearly appears from the sacred history: and appointed you, that ye may go and bear fruit — I have chosen and appointed you for this end, that ye may go and convert sinners: and that your fruit may remain — That the fruit of your labou... [ Continue Reading ]
Because ye are not of the world, therefore the world hateth you — Because your maxims, tempers, actions, are quite opposite to theirs. For the very same reason must the world in all ages hate those who are not of the world.... [ Continue Reading ]
John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; Luke 6:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
All these things will they do to you, because they know not him that sent me — And in all ages and nations they who know not God will, for this cause, hate and persecute those that do.... [ Continue Reading ]
They had not had sin — Not in this respect.... [ Continue Reading ]
He that hateth me — As every unbeliever doth, For as the love of God is inseparable from faith, so is the hatred of God from unbelief.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 69:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
When the Comforter is come, whom I will send from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me — The Spirit's coming, and being sent by our Lord from the Father, to testify of him, are personal characters, and plainly distinguish him from the Father and the... [ Continue Reading ]