John 8:42

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • John 17:8 : 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
  • John 12:49 : 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.
  • 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 3:17 : 17 For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • John 5:23 : 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.
  • John 5:43 : 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
  • John 7:28-29 : 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.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 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.
  • John 16:27-28 : 27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. 28 I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 16:27-28
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    27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

    28I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

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

    39They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.

    41Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.

  • John 8:18-19
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    79%

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

    19They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28Jesus 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.

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

  • John 5:42-43
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    42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

    43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54Jesus 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;

    55and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word.

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

  • John 8:43-44
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    43Why do ye not understand my speech? [Even] because ye cannot hear my word.

    44Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

  • John 6:42
    75%

    42And 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 8:23-24
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    23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.

  • John 8:14
    75%

    14Jesus 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.

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 14:7
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    7If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

  • John 8:28-29
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    28Jesus 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. [

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

  • John 12:49
    73%

    49For 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.

  • John 10:36-37
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    73%

    36say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am [the] Son of God?

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

  • John 5:36-38
    3 verses
    73%

    36But 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.

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

    38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

  • John 15:22-24
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    72%

    22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

    23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

    24If 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.

  • John 8:46-47
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    46Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do ye not believe me?

    47He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.

  • John 8:16
    72%

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

  • John 14:24
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    24He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 6:65
    72%

    65And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.

  • John 17:8
    72%

    8for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

  • John 8:26
    71%

    26I 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 12:45
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    45And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me.

  • John 7:16
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    16Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me.

  • John 6:44-45
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    44No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

    45It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard from the Father, and hath learned, cometh unto me.

  • John 14:10
    70%

    10Believest 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 15:26
    70%

    26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:

  • John 8:21
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    21He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.