John 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples. I remember going over the garden of a friend who had taken up with immense enthusiasm some new system of growing dwarf trees. He exhibited his garden to me with great pride as a model of what a garden ought to be. "I presume," said I, "that you get a large quantity of fruit." "Fruit?" was the reply — "fruit? Why, I scarcely think about that;" and I found that my friend had so delighted himself with his new scheme, and with the beauty of the small trees all standing in rows, and the delightfulness of their leaves, so bewildered himself in his enthusiasm for his new method of gardening, that he had deceived his own self and was satisfied with leaves, and forgot that which seemed to me, as a looker-on, to be the only proof of success. (Bp. Harvey Goodwin.) Parallel Verses KJV: Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.WEB: "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. |
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