John 8:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

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  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
  • Rom 6:16 : 16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
  • Rom 6:19-20 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. 20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One. 9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father. 10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
  • Rom 8:21 : 21 That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 8:23 : 23 For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
  • Matt 5:18 : 18 Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

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    35 Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

    36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

  • John 8:31-33
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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;

    32 And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

    33 They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

  • Rom 6:16-18
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    16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

    17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

    18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • 1 John 3:4-6
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    4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

    5 And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.

    6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

  • 1 John 3:8-9
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    8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

    9 Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

  • John 8:46-47
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    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 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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    16 Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • John 8:44
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    44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

  • John 8:21
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    21 Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

  • 1 Cor 7:22-23
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    22 For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

    23 It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

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  • John 8:11-12
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    11 And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against you: go, and never do wrong again.]

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    26 If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

  • John 8:39
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    39 In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

  • John 8:51-52
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    51 Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

    52 The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

  • John 19:11
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    11 Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.

  • John 8:41
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    41 You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

  • John 8:7
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    7 But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.

  • John 8:4
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    4 And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

  • Mark 10:44
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    44 And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.

  • Matt 20:27
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    27 And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:

  • John 20:23
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    23 Any to whom you give forgiveness, will be made free from their sins; and any from whom you keep back forgiveness, will still be in their sins.

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

  • John 6:28
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    28 Then they said to him, How may we do the works of God?

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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • John 15:20
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    20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

  • 1 John 5:17
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    17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • John 5:24
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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.

  • Rom 7:17
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    17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.