The Vine
54 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
39 sections
- (Its Fruitful Branches) of Saints
- (Its Quick Growth) of the Growth of Saints in Grace
- (Its Rich Clusters) of the Graces of the Church
- (Of Unfruitful Branches) Mere Professors
- (Pruning of) God's Purifying his People by Afflictions
- (Sitting Under One's Own) Peace and Prosperity
- (Unfruitful) the Wicked
- (Worthlessness of Its Wood) the Unprofitableness, of
- Canaan Abounded In
- Cultivated by the Walls of Houses
- Cultivated in the Valleys
- Cultivated in Vineyards from the Time of Noah
- Cultivated: On the Sides of Hills
- Foxes Destructive To
- Frequently Injured by Hail and Frost
- Frequently Made Unfruitful As a Punishment
- God Made, Fruitful for his People when Obedient
- Nazarites Prohibited Eating Any Part of
- Often Degenerated
- Often Found Wild
- Perfumed the Air with the Fragrance of Its Flowers
- Places Celebrated For: Egypt
- Places Celebrated For: Eshcol
- Places Celebrated For: Lebanon
- Places Celebrated For: Sibmah
- Probably Produced Two Crops of Fruit in the Year
- Proverbial Allusion to Fathers Eating the Unripe Fruit of
- Required to be Dressed and Pruned to Increase Its
- Sometimes Cast Its Fruit Before It Came to Perfection
- The Dwarf and Spreading Vine Particularly Esteemed
- The Fruit of Called Grapes
- The Fruit of Eaten Dried
- The Fruit of Eaten Fresh from the Tree
- The Fruit of Made Into Wine
- The Fruit of Peculiarly Sour when Unripe
- The Fruit of Sold in the Markets
- The Wild Boar Destructive To
- The Wood of, Fit Only for Burning
- Young Cattle Fed on Its Leaves and Tender Shoots
(Its Fruitful Branches) of Saints
- John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
(Its Quick Growth) of the Growth of Saints in Grace
- Hosea 14:7 They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
(Its Rich Clusters) of the Graces of the Church
- Song of Solomon 7:8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
(Of Unfruitful Branches) Mere Professors
- John 15:2 He 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.
- John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
(Pruning of) God's Purifying his People by Afflictions
- John 15:2 He 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.
(Sitting Under One's Own) Peace and Prosperity
- 1 Kings 4:25 Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
- Micah 4:4 And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
- Zechariah 3:10 On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.’”
(Unfruitful) the Wicked
- Hosea 10:1 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.
(Worthlessness of Its Wood) the Unprofitableness, of
- Ezekiel 15:6–7 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem. …
Canaan Abounded In
- Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Cultivated by the Walls of Houses
- Psalm 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
Cultivated in the Valleys
- Song of Solomon 6:11 I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Cultivated in Vineyards from the Time of Noah
- Genesis 9:20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
Cultivated: On the Sides of Hills
- Jeremiah 31:5 Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
Foxes Destructive To
- Song of Solomon 2:15 Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.
Frequently Injured by Hail and Frost
- Psalm 78:47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Psalm 105:32–33 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land. …
Frequently Made Unfruitful As a Punishment
- Jeremiah 8:13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
- Hosea 2:12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
- Joel 1:7 It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- Joel 1:12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard— are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- Haggai 2:19 Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
God Made, Fruitful for his People when Obedient
- Joel 2:22 Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.
- Zechariah 8:12 “For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
Nazarites Prohibited Eating Any Part of
- Numbers 6:3–4 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins. …
Often Degenerated
- Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
- Jeremiah 2:21 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?
Often Found Wild
- 2 Kings 4:39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
- Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
Perfumed the Air with the Fragrance of Its Flowers
- Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
- Hosea 14:7 They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Places Celebrated For: Egypt
- Psalm 78:47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Psalm 80:8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
Places Celebrated For: Eshcol
- Numbers 13:23–24 When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs. …
Places Celebrated For: Lebanon
- Hosea 14:7 They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Places Celebrated For: Sibmah
- Isaiah 16:8–9 For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out …
Probably Produced Two Crops of Fruit in the Year
- Numbers 13:20 Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
Proverbial Allusion to Fathers Eating the Unripe Fruit of
- Jeremiah 31:29–30 “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’ …
- Ezekiel 18:2 “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
Required to be Dressed and Pruned to Increase Its
- Leviticus 25:3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
Sometimes Cast Its Fruit Before It Came to Perfection
- Job 15:33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
- Malachi 3:11 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts.
The Dwarf and Spreading Vine Particularly Esteemed
- Ezekiel 17:6 It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.
The Fruit of Called Grapes
- Genesis 40:10 and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
The Fruit of Eaten Dried
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 1 Samuel 30:12 a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
The Fruit of Eaten Fresh from the Tree
- Deuteronomy 23:24 When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
The Fruit of Made Into Wine
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
- Matthew 26:29 I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
The Fruit of Peculiarly Sour when Unripe
- Jeremiah 31:30 Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
The Fruit of Sold in the Markets
- Nehemiah 13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. …
The Wild Boar Destructive To
- Psalm 80:13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
The Wood of, Fit Only for Burning
- Ezekiel 15:2–5 “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest? …
Young Cattle Fed on Its Leaves and Tender Shoots
- Genesis 49:11 He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Related topics
The Vine of IsraelThe Vine of ChristThe Vine of Sodom Bad and Unfit for UseGrapeThe Fig-Tree
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.