John 6:56

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

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  • 1 John 3:24 : 24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
  • John 15:4-5 : 4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
  • 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God. 16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
  • Rev 3:20 : 20 See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.
  • John 14:20 : 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.
  • John 17:21-23 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Eph 3:17 : 17 So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,
  • Ps 90:1 : 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
  • Ps 91:9 : 9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;
  • Lam 3:24 : 24 I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • 1 John 4:12 : 12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

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

    48I am the bread of life.

    49Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

    50The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

    51I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.

    52Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

    53Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

    54He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink has eternal life: and I will take him up from the dead at the last day.

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  • John 6:57-60
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    57As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.

    58This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

    59Jesus said these things in the Synagogue while he was teaching at Capernaum.

    60Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

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    31Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

    32Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

    33The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

    34Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!

    35And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

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

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    62What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

    63The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

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    4Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

    5I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

    6If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

    7If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

  • John 14:19-20
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    19A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.

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

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    26Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

    27Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

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    26For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.

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    40This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

    41Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

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    38He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

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    24He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

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    32But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

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    10Have 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.

  • John 14:23
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    6He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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    29For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

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    4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

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    24And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men.

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

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    23I 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.

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    24Truly 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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    34Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

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