John 6:51

American Standard Version (1901)

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

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  • Luke 22:19 : 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
  • John 1:29 : 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
  • John 3:13 : 13 And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, [even] the Son of man, who is in heaven.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
  • John 4:10-11 : 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?
  • John 6:33 : 33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
  • John 7:38 : 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
  • Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
  • Heb 10:5-9 : 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; 6 In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure: 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God. 8 Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), 9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
  • Heb 10:20 : 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
  • 1 Pet 2:4 : 4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
  • John 6:52-58 : 52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. 54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

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  • John 6:47-50
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    47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.

    48 I am the bread of life.

    49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    50 This is the bread which cometh down out of heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

  • John 6:52-59
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    52 The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

    53 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves.

    54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

    56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.

    57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

    58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

    59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

  • John 6:31-36
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    31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

    32 Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, It was not Moses that gave you the bread out of heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread out of heaven.

    33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

    34 They said therefore unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

    35 Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

    36 But I said unto you, that ye have seen me, and yet believe not.

  • John 6:38-42
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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.

    41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.

    42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?

  • John 6:26-27
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    26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.

    27 Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

  • John 6:62-63
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    62 [ What] then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?

    63 It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

  • 22 And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is my body.

  • 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

  • 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

  • John 4:32-34
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    32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

    33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat?

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

  • 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude cometh unto him, saith unto Philip, Whence are we to buy bread, that these may eat?

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    23 For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

    24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

  • 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • 14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

  • 19 Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.

  • Mark 6:36-37
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    36 send them away, that they may go into the country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat.

    37 But he answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread, and give them to eat?

  • 11 Give us this day our daily bread.

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    26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come.

    27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

  • 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

  • 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

  • 13 Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and the fish likewise.

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

  • 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall never see death.

  • 4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.