John 8:47

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

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  • John 1:12-13 : 12 Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. 13 They were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • John 6:45-46 : 45 It 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. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
  • John 6:65 : 65 He went on to say, 'This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to them by the Father.'
  • John 8:37 : 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
  • John 8:45 : 45 But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
  • John 10:26-27 : 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 17:6-8 : 6 I have revealed Your name to the people You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You. 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 18:37 : 37 'So you are a king, then?' said Pilate. Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this reason I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'
  • 1 John 3:10 : 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.
  • 1 John 4:1-6 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.
  • 2 John 1:9 : 9 Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:37-46
    10 verses
    83%

    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

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

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

    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.

    43Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

    44You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

    45But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

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

  • 1 John 4:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

    6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

  • John 5:38-40
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 10:25-27
    3 verses
    78%

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

    26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.

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

  • John 8:48
    77%

    48The Jews responded to him, "Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

  • John 8:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

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

    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

  • John 9:31
    75%

    31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to them.

  • John 8:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    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."

    27They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

  • John 5:42
    73%

    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • John 14:24
    72%

    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 8:52
    72%

    52Then the Jews said, "Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets. Yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

  • John 8:19
    72%

    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."

  • John 3:11
    72%

    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 5:47
    72%

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

  • John 6:65
    71%

    65He went on to say, 'This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to them by the Father.'

  • John 3:34
    71%

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

  • John 8:55
    71%

    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 13:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13That is why I speak to them in parables, because although they see, they do not see; and although they hear, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.'

  • John 12:48
    71%

    48The one who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge: The word I have spoken will judge them on the last day.

  • John 17:16
    71%

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

  • John 7:7
    71%

    7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • Mark 7:16
    71%

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

  • John 7:36
    71%

    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 6:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

    46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.

  • John 10:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36what about the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?

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

  • Matt 11:15
    70%

    15He who has ears, let him hear.

  • John 9:33
    70%

    33If this man were not from God, He would not be able to do anything.

  • John 16:9
    70%

    9about sin, because they do not believe in me;

  • Acts 28:26
    70%

    26'Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive."'

  • John 8:31
    70%

    31Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.

  • John 10:33
    70%

    33The Jews answered him, 'We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'