John 7:16

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

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  • John 14:24 : 24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.
  • John 3:11 : 11 Truly, 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 17:8 : 8 For 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 17:14 : 14 I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  • John 5:23-24 : 23 'So that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.' 24 Truly, 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.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I 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 6:38-40 : 38 'For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.' 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.' 40 For 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.
  • John 6:44 : 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up on the last day.
  • John 8:28 : 28 So 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 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak. 50 I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Do 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.
  • Rev 1:1 : 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John.
  • John 3:31 : 31 The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 7:17-19
    3 verses
    80%

    17'If anyone wants to do His will, they will know whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My own authority.'

    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.

    19Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill Me?

  • John 7:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    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 6:38
    76%

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

  • John 12:49
    75%

    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 8:26
    74%

    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 14:24
    74%

    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

  • John 5:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    31If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

  • John 13:16
    73%

    16Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

  • John 12:30
    72%

    30Jesus replied, "This voice did not come for My sake, but for yours."

  • John 7:15
    72%

    15The Jews were amazed, saying, 'How does this man know so much without having been taught?'

  • John 18:19
    72%

    19The high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

  • John 8:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    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."

  • John 8:49-50
    2 verses
    72%

    49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

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

  • John 8:14-16
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

  • John 7:6
    71%

    6Jesus said to them, 'My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.'

  • John 18:36
    71%

    36Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight to prevent my being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.'

  • John 8:54
    71%

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

  • John 8:42
    71%

    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

  • John 12:44-45
    2 verses
    71%

    44Then Jesus cried out, "Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me only, but in the One who sent Me.

    45"And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

  • John 5:17
    70%

    17But Jesus answered them, 'My Father is working until now, and I too am working.'

  • John 6:45
    70%

    45It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

  • John 5:38
    70%

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

  • John 8:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

    20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple treasury. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

  • John 4:34
    70%

    34Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.

  • Mark 7:7
    70%

    7They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

  • John 14:10
    70%

    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.

  • Matt 7:29
    70%

    29because He taught them as one who had authority, and not like their scribes.

  • John 5:19
    70%

    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 8:23
    70%

    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • John 13:20
    69%

    20Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives anyone I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.

  • John 7:36
    69%

    36What does He mean when He said, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

  • John 10:37
    69%

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

  • John 18:34
    69%

    34Jesus answered, 'Is that your own idea, or did others talk to you about me?'

  • John 16:15
    69%

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

  • John 3:34
    69%

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

  • John 17:8
    69%

    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 18:8
    69%

    8Jesus answered, 'I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.'

  • John 8:47
    69%

    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

  • John 17:16
    69%

    16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • John 5:36
    69%

    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.