ye are the branches This has been implied, but not stated yet.

for without me Better, because apart from Me, or (as the margin) severed from Me. Comp. John 1:3; Ephesians 2:12.

ye can do nothing Christians cannot live as Christians apart from Christ. Nothing is said here about those who are not Christians, although there is a sense in which the words are true of them also.

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