John 15:6

New International Reader's Version

If you don’t remain joined to me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and dries up. Branches like those are picked up. They are thrown into the fire and burned.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:7

Even if you touch them, you must use an iron tool or a spear. Thorns are burned up right where they are.”

Job 15:30

They won’t escape the darkness of death. A flame will dry up everything they have. The breath of God will blow them away.

Psalm 80:15

Guard the root you have planted with your powerful right hand. Take care of the branch you have raised up for yourself.

Isaiah 14:19

But you have been thrown out of your tomb. You are like a branch that is cut off and thrown away. You are covered with the bodies of those who have been killed by swords. You have been tossed into a stony pit along with them. You are like a dead body that people have walked on.

Isaiah 27:10

Cities that have high walls around them will become empty. They will be settlements with no one in them. They will be like a desert. Calves will eat and lie down in them. They will strip bare the branches of their trees.

Ezekiel 17:9

“Ezekiel, tell the Israelites, ‘The Lord and King asks, “Will the vine grow? Won’t it be pulled up by its roots? Won’t all its fruit be stripped off? Won’t it dry up? All its new growth will dry up. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of Man will send out his angels. They will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin. They will also get rid of all who do evil.

Matthew 27:5

So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Matthew 3:10

The ax is ready to cut the roots of the trees. All the trees that don’t produce good fruit will be cut down. They will be thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down. It is thrown into the fire.

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch joined to me that does not bear fruit. He trims every branch that does bear fruit. Then it will bear even more fruit.

Hebrews 10:27

All we can do is to wait in fear for God to judge. His blazing fire will burn up his enemies.

2 Peter 2:20

They may have escaped the sin of the world. They may have come to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But what if they are once again caught up in sin? And what if it has become their master? Then they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.

1 John 2:19

These enemies left our community of believers. They didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But by leaving they showed that none of them belonged to us.

Revelation 20:15

Anyone whose name was not written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8

But others will be thrown into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. Those who are afraid and those who do not believe will be there. Murderers and those who make themselves impure will join them. Those who commit sexual sins and those who practice witchcraft will go there. Those who worship statues of gods and all who tell lies will be there too. The lake of fire is the second death.”