Verse 40

But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • John 3:19 : 19 This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
  • John 6:37 : 37 'All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.'
  • John 6:27 : 27 'Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him, God the Father has set his seal of approval.'
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • John 1:11 : 11 He came to His own, but His own people did not receive Him.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 This is what the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: To the one despised and abhorred by the nations, to the servant of rulers: Kings will see you and stand to attention, and princes will bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Why, when I came, was there no one? Why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand too short to redeem? Do I have no power to save? Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I turn rivers into a desert, so their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
  • Isa 53:1-3 : 1 Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty to attract us to him, and no appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Matt 22:3 : 3 He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only God?
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life, and so that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let the one who hears say, "Come!" Let the one who is thirsty come, and let the one who desires take the water of life freely.
  • Ps 81:11 : 11 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.
  • John 6:68-69 : 68 Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.'
  • John 7:37-38 : 37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.' 38 'Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.'
  • John 8:45-46 : 45 But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.' 26 'And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever. Do you believe this?'
  • John 12:37-41 : 37 Though He had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in Him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said: "Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" 39 This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said: 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them." 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.