John 5:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
  • 1 John 5:9 : 9 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.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
  • Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.
  • Luke 24:47 : 47 And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.
  • John 5:41 : 41 I do not take honour from men;
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.
  • Rom 3:3 : 3 And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
  • Rom 10:21 : 21 But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.
  • Rom 12:21 : 21 Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.
  • 1 Tim 2:3-4 : 3 This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour; 4 Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.

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    30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

    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.

  • 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 5:35-43
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    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.

    38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

    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.

    40 And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

    41 I do not take honour from men;

    42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

    43 I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

  • John 1:33-34
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    33 I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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

  • John 3:27-28
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    27 And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

    28 You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

  • 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.

  • John 12:46-47
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    46 I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

    47 And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

  • John 1:6-8
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    6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

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

    8 He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.

  • John 8:13-18
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    13 So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

    14 Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.

    15 You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

    16 Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.

    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.

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    9 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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    26 I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

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    25 Jesus said in answer, I have said it and you have no belief: the works which I do in my Father's name, these give witness about me.

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    31 I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.

  • John 3:17-18
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    17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

    18 The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

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    42 And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

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    55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

  • John 8:23-24
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    23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24 For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

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    36 But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

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

  • Gal 1:11
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    11 Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

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

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    24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

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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.

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    6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

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    25 He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.