John 5:42

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • John 2:25 : 25 He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.
  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
  • John 1:47-49 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false. 48 Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you. 49 Nathanael said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!
  • John 5:44 : 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 8:47 : 47 He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
  • John 8:55 : 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 15:23-24 : 23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
  • Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • 1 John 2:15 : 15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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  • John 5:43-45
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    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.

    44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

    45 Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.

  • John 5:38-41
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    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;

  • 1 John 4:8
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    8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

  • John 8:55
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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 8:42-43
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    42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

    43 Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

  • John 16:3
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    3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

  • John 13:35
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    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • John 8:37-38
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    37 I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

    38 I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

  • John 15:17-19
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    17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

    18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

    19 If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

  • John 17:25
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    25 Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

  • John 8:47
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    47 He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

  • John 7:7
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    7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

  • John 16:27
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    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.

  • John 14:20
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    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.

  • 1 John 2:4
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    4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

  • John 14:24
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    24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 8:19
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    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.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • John 6:36
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    36 But it is as I said to you: you have seen me, and still you have no faith.

  • 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.

  • Matt 25:12
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    12 But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.

  • John 14:7
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    7 If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him.

  • 1 John 4:20
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    20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

  • John 15:12
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    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

  • John 15:21
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    21 They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.

  • John 15:23-25
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    23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.

    24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.

    25 This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

  • John 8:49
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    49 And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.

  • John 12:43
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    43 For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

  • Matt 5:43
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    43 You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

  • John 7:28
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    28 Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

  • John 8:45
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    45 But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

  • John 15:9
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    9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

  • 1 John 2:21
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    21 I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

  • John 17:23
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    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.

  • John 5:34
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    34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

  • Rom 10:2
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    2 For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

  • John 10:26
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    26 But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep.