Verse 47

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

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  • John 1:12-13 : 12 Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. 13 They were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • John 6:45-46 : 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
  • John 6:65 : 65 He went on to say, 'This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to them by the Father.'
  • John 8:37 : 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
  • John 8:45 : 45 But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
  • John 10:26-27 : 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 17:6-8 : 6 I have revealed Your name to the people You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You. 8 For I gave them the words You gave Me, and they received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
  • John 18:37 : 37 'So you are a king, then?' said Pilate. Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this reason I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'
  • 1 John 3:10 : 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.
  • 1 John 4:1-6 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.
  • 2 John 1:9 : 9 Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.