John 10:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 14:28 : 28 Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
  • John 17:2 : 2 Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.
  • John 6:37 : 37 Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
  • John 17:6 : 6 I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.
  • Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.
  • Ps 145:3 : 3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.
  • Dan 4:3 : 3 How great are his signs! and how full of power are his wonders! his kingdom is an eternal kingdom and his rule goes on from generation to generation.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
  • John 17:9 : 9 My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours
  • John 17:11 : 11 And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

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  • 91%

    27 My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

    28 And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

  • 30 I and my Father are one.

  • 77%

    14 I am the good keeper; I have knowledge of my sheep, and they have knowledge of me,

    15 Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.

    16 And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.

    17 For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.

    18 No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.

  • 35 The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.

  • 65 And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

  • John 17:6-12
    7 verses
    75%

    6 I have given knowledge of your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your words.

    7 Now it is clear to them that whatever you have given to me comes from you:

    8 Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

    9 My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours

    10 (All mine are yours, and yours are mine) and I have glory in them.

    11 And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

    12 While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.

  • 37 Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

  • 39 And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

  • 27 All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

  • 15 Everything which the Father has is mine: that is why I say, He will take of what is mine and will make it clear to you.

  • 44 No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

  • 2 Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

  • 22 All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

  • 39 Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

  • 28 Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

  • 72%

    21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.

    22 And the glory which you have given to me I have given to them, so that they may be one even as we are one;

    23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

    24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

    25 Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

  • 71%

    27 For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

    28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.

  • 10 Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

  • 9 (He said this so that his words might come true, I have kept safe all those whom you gave to me.)

  • John 8:28-29
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    70%

    28 So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

    29 He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

  • John 5:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

    20 For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.

  • 11 I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

  • 3 Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

  • 20 At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.

  • 9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

  • 8 All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

  • 26 For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

  • 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.

  • 46 Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

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    15 My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

    16 They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

  • 29 Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father: