John 12:50

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I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.

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  • John 6:68 : 68 Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • John 20:31 : 31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the foremost of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
  • John 6:63 : 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are Spirit and they are life.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
  • 1 John 3:23-24 : 23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life, and so that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 49For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak.

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    30I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

    31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.

  • John 15:9-12
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    75%

    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

    10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

  • 26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

  • John 8:28-29
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    28So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.

    29The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

  • 15Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • 25I have spoken these things to you while remaining with you.

  • 55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

  • 38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

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    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

    18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have the authority to lay it down and the authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

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    20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

    21The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.

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    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the works themselves.

  • 30I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

  • 15Everything that the Father has is mine. This is why I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

  • 36But I have testimony greater than John's: the works the Father has given Me to complete, the very works I am doing, testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

  • 8For I gave them the words You gave Me, and they received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

  • John 17:2-3
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    2Just as You gave Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all You have given Him.

    3Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  • 28You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 6:39-40
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    39'And this is the will of him who sent me: that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up on the last day.'

    40For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.

  • 57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who eats me will live because of me.

  • 17This is my command: Love one another.

  • 27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

  • 24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

  • 15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • 19So Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He only does what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does in the same way.'

  • 51Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.

  • 16And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • 30I and the Father are one.

  • 28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.

  • 15I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.

  • 27All things have been committed to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

  • 28Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

  • 29I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.'

  • John 6:47-48
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    47Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.

    48I am the bread of life.

  • 14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • 13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

  • 25I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • 25Righteous Father, though the world has not known You, I have known You, and they have known that You sent Me.

  • 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without measure.