John 15:1 ““I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.”

John 15:1

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

World English Bible

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

American Standard Version

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Geneva Bible 1599

I Am that true vine, and my Father is that husband man.

Darby Translation

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Young's Literal Translation

'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

Bible in Basic English

I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

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Cross references

“true”

John 6:55 1 John 2:8 John 6:32 John 1:9 John 1:17

John 6:55 · BSB

For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

1 John 2:8 · BSB

Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

John 6:32 · BSB

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

John 1:9 · BSB

The true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

John 1:17 · BSB

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

“vine”

Jeremiah 2:21 Psalm 80:8–19 Isaiah 4:2 Isaiah 5:1–7 Jeremiah 12:10 Hosea 10:1

Jeremiah 2:21 · BSB

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Psalm 80:8–19 · BSB

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Isaiah 4:2 · BSB

On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 5:1–7 · BSB

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Jeremiah 12:10 · BSB

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

Hosea 10:1 · BSB

Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

“husbandman”

1 Corinthians 3:9 Isaiah 60:21 Mark 12:1 Matthew 20:1 Song of Solomon 7:12 Isaiah 61:3

1 Corinthians 3:9 · BSB

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Isaiah 60:21 · BSB

Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

Mark 12:1 · BSB

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

Matthew 20:1 · BSB

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Song of Solomon 7:12 · BSB

Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.

Isaiah 61:3 · BSB

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the L…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

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