John 5:30

American Standard Version (1901)

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

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  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • John 5:19 : 19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
  • John 8:28 : 28 Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things. [
  • Rom 15:3 : 3 For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.
  • John 8:15-16 : 15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16 Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
  • Ps 40:7-8 : 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • Isa 11:3-4 : 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
  • Hos 10:7-9 : 7 [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water. 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah. 10 When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
  • Ps 96:13 : 13 Before Jehovah; For he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.
  • John 17:4 : 4 I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.
  • John 18:11 : 11 Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
  • Rom 2:2 : 2 And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 8:50 : 50 But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 5:31-32
    2 verses
    82%

    31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

    32 It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

  • 19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

  • John 8:14-16
    3 verses
    79%

    14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go.

    15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

    16 Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

  • 50 But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

  • John 6:38-40
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    38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

    39 And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

    40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

  • John 5:36-37
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    76%

    36 But the witness which I have is greater than [that of] John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

    37 And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

  • John 8:28-29
    2 verses
    76%

    28 Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things. [

    29 And he that sent me is with me; he hath not left me alone; for I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

  • 76%

    49 For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

    50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.

  • 26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world.

  • John 5:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 For as the Father raiseth the dead and giveth them life, even so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

    22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;

  • John 7:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.

    17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.

    18 He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    73%

    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

    4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

  • 29 and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.

  • 18 I am he that beareth witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

  • 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

  • John 7:28-29
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    72%

    28 Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

    29 I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

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    37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

    38 But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

  • 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

  • 54 Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God;

  • 47 And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

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    30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;

    31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

  • 30 I and the Father are one.

  • 27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

  • 24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

  • 41 I receive not glory from men.

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    10 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;

    11 of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged.

  • 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

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    17 Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

    18 No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.

  • 27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .

  • 38 I speak the things which I have seen with [my] Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from [your] father.

  • 34 But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved.

  • 44 No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

  • 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.