7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here Christ discourses concerning the fruit, the fruits of the Spirit , which his disciples were to bring forth, under the similitude of a vine. Observe here, I. The doctrine of this similitude; what notion we ought to have of it. 1. That Jesus Christ is the vine, the true vine . It is an instance of the humility of Christ that he is pleased to speak of himself under low and humble comparisons. He…
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