Voice Of The Vine

Tune: University College

('Oft in danger, oft in owe')

John 15 v.1-5

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Jesus He be the true Vine

He be human and divine

And God the Father He be

Husbandman, vinedresser, see

Every branch in Christ that bears

Not fruit, it His life not shares

For He does take it away

It unfruitful in its day

And every branch that fruit bears

It at times is pruned, it shares

In that, so it may bring forth

Productive fruit and more worth

God the Father He does prune

Fruitful branches late or soon

May be chastening, some pain

But that it bear fruit again

Now we are clean through the word

Christ spoke to us, we it heard

He says to in Him abide

Branches in the vine reside

As vine's branches cannot bear

Fruit alone, but they must share

In the life of the vine, see

Christ says, So abide in me

He the vine, the branches we

Abide in Christ, and He, see

Abides in us, such shall bring

Forth much fruit in each good thing

For without Christ we can do

Nothing, we dependent too

On Him, and in Him we live

He to us true life does give