let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
John 15:1 - Revised Standard Version “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. American Standard Version (1901) I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Common English Bible “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper. Catholic Public Domain Version "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I AM the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. |
let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.
Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land for ever, the shoot of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased the more altars he built; as his country improved he improved his pillars.
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men of good omen: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.
He answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
“Hear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree,
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.