John 6:57

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 5:26 : 26 For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • John 3:17 : 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.
  • Ps 18:46 : 46 The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
  • Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  • Col 3:3-4 : 3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God. 4 At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
  • 1 John 4:9 : 9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead; 26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
  • John 14:19 : 19 A 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.
  • John 17:21 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 15:22 : 22 For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.
  • 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

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  • John 6:47-56
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    47 Truly I say to you, He who has faith in me has eternal life.

    48 I am the bread of life.

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

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

    51 I 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.

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

    53 Then 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.

    54 He 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.

    55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.

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

  • John 6:58-59
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    58 This 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.

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

  • John 6:31-41
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    31 Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

    32 Jesus 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.

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

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

    35 And 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.

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

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

    38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent 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.

    40 This, 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.

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

  • John 6:62-63
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    62 What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

    63 The 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.

  • John 6:27
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    27 Let 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.

  • John 14:19-20
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    19 A 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.

    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 15:4-5
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    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.

  • John 5:24-26
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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.

    25 Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

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

  • 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.

  • John 4:34
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    34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

  • John 14:10-11
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    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 4:32
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    32 But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

  • John 10:17
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    17 For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.

  • John 12:45
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    45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.

  • John 12:50
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    50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

  • 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.

  • Mark 14:22
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    22 And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

  • John 14:6
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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.

  • John 17:21
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    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.

  • John 6:65
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    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 11:26
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    26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

  • John 6:44
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    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.

  • 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 7:38
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    38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.