John 7:17

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

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  • John 8:31-32 : 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples. 32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
  • Phil 3:15-16 : 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have already attained.
  • Acts 11:13-14 : 13 He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send men to Joppa and bring back Simon, who is called Peter. 14 He will speak words to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.
  • John 8:47 : 47 The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With all my heart I seek You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 Who is the one who fears the LORD? He will instruct them in the way they should choose.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The secret counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes his covenant known to them.
  • Matt 6:22 : 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
  • Ps 119:101-102 : 101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word. 102 I have not turned aside from Your judgments, for You have taught me.
  • Isa 35:8 : 8 And there will be a highway there, called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for those who walk in that way—fools shall not wander astray.
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will anyone teach their neighbor or their brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined; but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 The Bereans were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore, he guides sinners in the way. 9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches the humble his way.
  • Acts 10:1-6 : 1 There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment. 2 He was a devout man and feared God along with all his household. He gave many alms to the people and prayed to God continually. 3 One afternoon, about three o’clock, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying, 'Cornelius.' 4 Cornelius gazed at him in fear and asked, 'What is it, Lord?' The angel replied, 'Your prayers and your acts of charity have ascended as a memorial offering before God.' 5 Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter. 6 He is staying as a guest with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea. He will tell you what you must do.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to know Him. His coming is as certain as the dawn, and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.
  • Mic 4:2 : 2 Many nations will come and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths.’ For the law will go out from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 But the seed on good soil represents those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and produce a harvest through perseverance.
  • John 1:46-49 : 46 'Can anything good come out of Nazareth?' Nathanael asked. Philip said to him, 'Come and see.' 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, 'Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!' 48 Nathanael asked Him, 'How do you know me?' Jesus replied, 'Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.' 49 Nathanael responded, 'Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel!'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 7:16
    80%

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

  • John 7:18
    75%

    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 5:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Luke 6:46-47
    2 verses
    74%

    46Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

    47Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.

  • John 6:38
    73%

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

  • Matt 7:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20So then, you will recognize them by their fruits.

    21Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

  • Mark 7:16
    73%

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • John 13:17
    72%

    17If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

  • John 7:4
    71%

    4'For no one does anything in secret while seeking to be known publicly. If You are doing these things, reveal Yourself to the world.'

  • John 15:7
    71%

    7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

  • John 4:34
    71%

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

  • John 14:21
    70%

    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.

  • 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 10:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    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 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.'

  • Matt 7:24
    69%

    24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

  • John 8:46-47
    2 verses
    69%

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

    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 14:7
    69%

    7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.

  • John 8:14
    69%

    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.

  • Mark 3:35
    69%

    35Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother."

  • John 6:45
    69%

    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 8:26
    69%

    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 7:27-29
    3 verses
    69%

    27But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where He is from.

    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 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’?”

  • Rom 7:16
    68%

    16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

  • John 6:40
    68%

    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.

  • John 12:49
    68%

    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 14:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'

    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 8:55
    68%

    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.

  • Matt 11:27
    68%

    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.

  • John 14:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    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.

  • John 7:24
    68%

    24Do not judge by appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

  • John 7:51
    68%

    51'Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?'

  • Rom 7:20
    67%

    20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

  • John 6:28
    67%

    28Then they said to him, 'What must we do to perform the works of God?'

  • 1 Cor 9:17
    67%

    17If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility.

  • Matt 12:50
    67%

    50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.

  • John 3:21
    67%

    21But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly seen that their deeds have been done in God.

  • John 8:16
    67%

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

  • Matt 16:24
    67%

    24Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

  • Mark 4:23
    67%

    23If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.