John 5:47

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 16:31 : 31 And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
  • Luke 16:29 : 29 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.

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  • John 5:43-46
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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.

    46 If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.

  • John 5:38-40
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

  • John 10:37-38
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    78%

    37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not have belief in me;

    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.

  • John 12:44-45
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    44 Then Jesus said with a loud voice, He who has faith in me, has faith not in me, but in him who sent me.

    45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.

  • John 10:25-26
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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.

    26 But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep.

  • John 14:10-11
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    72%

    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.

    11 Have faith that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me: at least, have faith in me because of what I do.

  • John 6:36
    72%

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

  • John 8:45-47
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    72%

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

    46 Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

    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 3:11-12
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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.

    12 If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

  • John 5:31-34
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    71%

    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 4:48
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    48 Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

  • John 6:47
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    47 Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

  • John 12:37
    70%

    37 But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

  • John 8:24
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    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.

  • 1 John 5:9-10
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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.

    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.

  • John 7:5
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    5 For even his brothers had no belief 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 5:36
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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.

  • John 20:31
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    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 20:5
    69%

    5 And they said among themselves, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not have faith in him?

  • John 12:48
    69%

    48 He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

  • John 16:9
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    9 Of sin, because they have not faith in me;

  • John 6:29-30
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    29 Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.

    30 So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

  • 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 8:31
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    31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

  • John 8:43
    68%

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

  • John 4:41
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    41 And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.

  • Luke 16:31
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    31 And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

  • Exod 4:1
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    1 And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.

  • Mark 11:31
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    31 And they gave thought to it among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not have faith in him?

  • Exod 4:8
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    8 And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign.

  • John 11:40
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    40 Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?

  • John 14:15
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    15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.