What the Bible says about pruning

What did jesus say about pruning?Pruning is simply what faithful, fruitful christians undergo at the hand of god.It is something that should cause us to depend on god more, not less.For most of my early life i could not understand why people pruned their fruit trees.3 now ye are clean through the word which i have spoken unto you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.The worthiness of the ship is not determined while it lies in the harbor but when it rides the waves of a storm.Already you are clean because of the word that i have spoken to you.Not willingly, for wantonness, for pleasure, for any benefit the husbandman secures, but for fruit.Faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.

Pruning tests our faith (genesis 22:1).And every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.As all need, so all have, discipline.My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the lord, nor lose courage when you are punished by him.Let the weak say, i am a mighty man..

God has no use for dead wood.In the deepest trial there has nothing happened to you but what is common to man. and why this?Hebrews 12:6 says that god corrects everyone that he loves.Our spiritual fruit is the fruit of the spirit:Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away;

No matter how fruitful we may already be;In his own words he describes himself as the vine and us as.