1 John 5:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

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  • Matt 3:16-17 : 16 And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove; 17 And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
  • Acts 17:31 : 31 Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.
  • John 10:38 : 38 But if I am doing them, then have belief in the works even if you have no belief in me; so that you may see clearly and be certain that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
  • Acts 5:32 : 32 And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.
  • Heb 2:4 : 4 And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
  • 1 John 5:10 : 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.
  • John 3:32-33 : 32 He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true. 33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.
  • John 5:31-37 : 31 If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true. 32 There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true. 33 You sent to John and he gave true witness. 34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation. 35 He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light. 36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.
  • John 5:39 : 39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
  • John 8:17-19 : 17 Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true. 18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me. 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 5:10-13
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    10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

    11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

    12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.

    13 I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

  • 1 John 5:5-8
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    5 Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

    6 This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.

    7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true.

    8 There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.

  • John 3:32-33
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    32 He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

    33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

  • John 5:31-34
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    31 If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

    32 There is another who gives witness about me and I am certain that the witness he gives about me is true.

    33 You sent to John and he gave true witness.

    34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

  • John 5:36-37
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    36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

    37 And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

  • 3 John 1:12
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    12 Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.

  • Acts 5:32
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    32 And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.

  • Heb 10:15
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    15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • John 8:17-18
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    17 Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

    18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

  • John 3:11
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    11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

  • 1 John 4:6
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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

  • Rom 8:16
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    16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

  • 1 John 1:2-3
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    2 (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us);

    3 We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

  • 1 John 4:13-15
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    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

    14 And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

    15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

  • 1 John 4:9
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    9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

  • John 5:23
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    23 So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.

  • John 1:7
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    7 He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10 If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • John 19:35
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    35 And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.

  • John 1:34
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    34 This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.

  • Rev 1:2
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    2 Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.

  • 1 John 3:19-20
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    19 In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

    20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

  • 1 John 2:5
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    5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • 1 Cor 15:15
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    15 Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

  • 1 Tim 5:19
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    19 Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.

  • 1 John 4:11
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    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

  • Deut 19:15-16
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    15 One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.

    16 If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,

  • 1 John 5:1
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    1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

  • Luke 22:71
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    71 And they said, What more need have we of witness? we have the very words of his mouth.

  • John 1:18
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    18 No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.