John 5:31

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If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

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  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another person praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • John 8:13-14 : 13 The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid." 14 Jesus 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.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 5:32-34
    3 verses
    87%

    32There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is true.

    33You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.

    34But I do not accept testimony from a man; rather, I say these things so that you may be saved.

  • John 8:13-18
    6 verses
    84%

    13The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid."

    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.

    15You judge by human standards; I judge no one.

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

    17In your Law, it is written that the testimony of two people is true.

    18I am the one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies about me.

  • John 5:30
    82%

    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.

  • John 5:36-39
    4 verses
    79%

    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.

    37The Father who sent me has Himself testified about me. You have never heard His voice or seen His form.

    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

    39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me.

  • John 3:28
    75%

    28'You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’

  • John 10:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

  • John 8:54-55
    2 verses
    75%

    54Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.

    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.

  • John 8:50
    74%

    50Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

  • John 7:18
    73%

    18The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of the One who sent him is truthful, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

  • John 10:25
    73%

    25Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me,

  • John 8:46
    73%

    46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

  • John 5:41
    73%

    41I do not accept glory from people.

  • 1 John 5:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9If we accept human testimony, God’s testimony is greater, because it is the testimony of God which He has given about His Son.

    10Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within them. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about His Son.

  • John 8:26
    72%

    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 3:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.

    33Whoever accepts His testimony certifies that God is truthful.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3But to me, it is of little importance to be judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.

    4I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.

  • John 3:11
    71%

    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.

  • John 5:19
    71%

    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.'

  • John 5:47
    71%

    47But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?

  • John 12:49
    71%

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

  • John 5:43-44
    2 verses
    70%

    43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. But if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

    44How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the one and only God?

  • John 15:26
    70%

    26When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.

  • John 14:11
    70%

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

  • John 8:28
    70%

    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.

  • John 7:16
    70%

    16Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but comes from the One who sent Me.

  • John 7:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple, cried out, 'You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him.

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

  • John 1:34
    70%

    34I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.

  • Prov 14:5
    70%

    5A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

  • Luke 22:71
    69%

    71They said, 'Why do we need any more testimony? We have heard it from his own lips.'

  • Mark 14:56
    69%

    56Many testified falsely against him, but their statements did not agree.

  • Deut 19:16
    69%

    16If a malicious witness testifies against someone, accusing him of wrongdoing,

  • John 2:25
    69%

    25He did not need anyone to testify about mankind, for He Himself knew what was in each person.

  • Job 9:20
    69%

    20Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.