John 15:2

Where it is preached

1. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

   The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers cites John xv. 2

   …fruit, every true and living branch. “He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit,” John xv. 2. He prunes it, and that not for a day or two, but whilst it is a branch in this world.…

2. The Key Teachings of John Owen · Ochorus Originals

   Be Killing Sin cites JOHN 15:2

   …and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. JOHN 15:2 He is honest that the connection is not mechanical. He points to Heman, the writer of the…

3. The True Vine · Andrew Murray

   More Fruit cites John 15.2

   And Every Branch That Beareth Fruit, He Cleanseth, That it May Bear More Fruit—John 15.2 The thought of fruit is so prominent in the eye of Him who sees things as they are, fruit…

4. The True Vine · Andrew Murray

   The Cleansing cites John 15.2

   Every Branch That Beareth Fruit, He Cleanseth It, That It May Bear More Fruit—John 15.2 There are two remarkable things about the vine. There is not a plant of which the fruit…

5. The True Vine · Andrew Murray

   The Branch cites John 15.2

   Every Branch in me that Beareth Not Fruit, He taketh It away—John 15.2 Here we have one of the chief words of the parable—branch. A vine needs branches: without…

6. The True Vine · Andrew Murray

   The Fruit cites John 15.2

   Every Branch in me That Beareth Not Fruit, He Taketh It Away—John 15.2 Fruit.—This is the next great word we have: the Vine, the Husbandman, the branch, the…

7. Abide in Christ · Andrew Murray

   In Affliction and Trial cites John xv. 2

   ‘Every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.’ — John xv. 2. In the whole plant world there is not a tree to be found so specially suited to be the…

8. The Key Teachings of Elisabeth Elliot · Ochorus Originals

   Suffering Is Never for Nothing cites JOHN 15:2

   …and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. JOHN 15:2 Underneath this, and more important than any illustration from nature, was the cross. She…

9. The Key Teachings of Gareth Evans · Ochorus Originals

   Abide in Me cites JOHN 15:2

   …and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. JOHN 15:2 Second, it means fruitfulness, and specifically the fruit of the Spirit, which grows, as…

10. The Key Teachings of Andrew Murray · Ochorus Originals

    Abide in Christ cites John 15:2

    …knife Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit (John 15:2). Murray knew the vine as a plant that runs quickly to wild wood and needs the hardest…

11. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    May cites John xv. 2

    …upon its mother's life. May 19 “He purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit” (John xv. 2). Recently we passed a garden. The gardener had just finished his pruning, and the wounds…

12. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

    November cites John xv. 2

    …instead of my heart.” November 26 “He purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit” (John xv. 2). One day we passed a garden. The gardener had finished his pruning, and the wounds of…

13. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of August cites John 15:2

    …and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit" John 15:2 This is a precious promise to one who lives for fruitfulness. At first it seems to wear a…

14. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Sermon I cites John xv. 2

    …not so much he that liveth, as Christ in him. For these, see Job i. 11, 12, and iii. 20. John xv. 2, 3, 4. 1 Cor. i. 20, and ii. 2. You see now in plain terms, from the word of God, who are…

15. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Discourse 4 cites John 15:2

    …and men gather them,” not to plant them again, but “to cast them into the fire.” (John 15:2, 5, 6.) 9. Toward those who have never tasted of the good word, God is indeed pitiful and…

16. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Growth cites John xv. 2

    …in Me that beareth fruit, my Father purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” (John xv. 2.) It is a melancholy fact, that constant temporal prosperity, as a general rule, is…

17. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Perseverance cites John xv. 2

    …being a cast-away. It is like 1 John v. 18: “He that is begotten of God keepeth himself.” John xv. 2. This does not prove that true believers shall be taken away from Christ. A branch that…