John 8:39

Bishops' Bible (1568)

They aunswered, and saide vnto him: Abraham is our father. Iesus saith vnto them: Yf ye were Abrahams childre, ye woulde do the workes of Abraham.

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  • Gal 3:7 : 7 Knowe ye therfore, that they which are of fayth, the same are the chyldren of Abraham.
  • John 8:37 : 37 I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but ye seke meanes to kyll me, because my worde hath no place in you.
  • Rom 9:7 : 7 Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And be not of suche mynde, that ye woulde say within your selues, we haue Abraham to our father. For I say vnto you, that God is able, of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the chyldren of your father, which is in heauen. For he maketh his sonne to aryse on the euyll, and on the good, and sendeth rayne on the iust, and on the vniust.
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 If ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heyres accordyng to the promise.
  • Jas 2:22-24 : 22 Seest thou not, howe ye faith wrought with his deedes, and through ye deedes was the fayth made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfylled, which sayth: Abraham beleued God, and it was reputed vnto hym for ryghteousnesse: And he was called the friende of God. 24 Ye see then, howe that of deedes a man is iustified, and not of fayth only.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Iewe, whiche is a Iewe outwarde. Neither is that circucision which is outwarde in the fleshe: 29 But he is a Iewe whiche is one inwardly, and the circumcisio of ye heart, which consisteth in the spirite, and not in the letter is circumcision whose prayse is not of men, but of God.
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 And that he myght be father of circumcision, not vnto them only whiche came of the circumcised: but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the fayth that was in our father Abraham, before the time of circumcision.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 Therefore by fayth is the inheritaunce geuen that it might come by grace, that the promise myght be sure to all ye seede, not to that only which is of the lawe, but to that also which is of the fayth of Abraham, which is the father of vs al.

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  • John 8:36-38
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    36Yf the sonne therefore shall make you free, then are ye free in deede.

    37I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but ye seke meanes to kyll me, because my worde hath no place in you.

    38I speake that whiche I haue seene with my father: and ye do that whiche ye haue seene with your father.

  • John 8:40-47
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    82%

    40But now ye go about to kyll me, a ma that hath tolde you the trueth, which I haue heard of god: this did not Abraha.

    41Ye do the deedes of your father. Then said they to him: We be not borne of fornication, we haue one father, euen God.

    42Iesus saide vnto them: Yf God were your father, truely ye woulde loue me: For I proceaded foorth, and came from God: neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.

    43Why do ye not knowe my speache? euen because ye cannot heare my word.

    44Ye are of your father the deuyll, and the lustes of your father wyll ye do. He was a murtherer from the begynnyng, and abode not in the trueth: because there is no trueth in hym. When he speaketh a lye, he speaketh of his owne: For he is a lyer, and the father of the same thyng.

    45And because I tel you the trueth, therfore ye beleue me not.

    46Which of you rebuketh me of sinne? Yf I say the trueth, why do not ye beleue me?

    47He that is of god, heareth gods wordes. Ye therfore heare the not, because ye are not of God.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Bryng foorth therefore due fruites of repentaunce, and begyn not to say within your selues, we haue Abraham to our father: For I saye vnto you, that God is able of these stones, to rayse vp childre vnto Abraham.

  • Matt 3:9
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    9And be not of suche mynde, that ye woulde say within your selues, we haue Abraham to our father. For I say vnto you, that God is able, of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham.

  • John 8:33-34
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    76%

    33They aunswered hym: We be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: howe sayest thou then, ye shalbe made free?

    34Iesus aunswered them: Ueryly, veryly I say vnto you, that whosoeuer comitteth sinne, is the seruaunt of sinne.

  • John 8:52-58
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    52Then sayde the Iewes vnto hym: Now know we that thou hast ye deuyll. Abraham is dead, & the prophetes: and thou sayest, yf a man kepe my saying, he shall neuer taste of death.

    53Art thou greater the our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophetes are dead: whom makest thou thy selfe?

    54Iesus aunswered: Yf I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye say is your God:

    55And yet ye haue not knowen him, but I knowe hym: And if I say I knowe hym not, I shalbe a lyer lyke vnto you. But I knowe hym, & kepe his saying.

    56Your father Abraham was glad to see my day: and he saw it, and reioyced.

    57Then sayde the Iewes vnto hym: Thou art not yet fiftie yeres olde, & hast thou seene Abraham.

    58Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly, veryly I saye vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.

  • Gal 3:7
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    7Knowe ye therfore, that they which are of fayth, the same are the chyldren of Abraham.

  • John 8:19
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    19Then sayde they vnto hym: Where is thy father? Iesus aunswered, Ye neither knowe me, nor yet my father: Yf ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen my father also.

  • John 6:28-30
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    28Then saide they vnto him: What shall we do, that we myght worke ye workes of God?

    29Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: This is the worke of God, that ye beleue on hym whom he hath sent.

    30They said therfore vnto hym: What signe shewest thou then, yt we may see, & beleue thee? What doest thou worke?

  • John 10:25
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    25Iesus aunswered them: I tolde you, and ye beleue not. The workes that I do in my fathers name, they beare witnesse of me.

  • John 10:37-38
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    72%

    37Yf I do not the workes of my father, beleue me not:

    38But yf I do, and yf ye beleue not me, beleue the workes: that ye may knowe and beleue, that the father is in me, and I in hym.

  • Rom 9:7-8
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    72%

    7Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called.

    8That is to say: They which are the chyldren of the fleshe, are not the chyldren of God: But they which be the childre of promise, are counted the seede.

  • Rom 4:1-2
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    1What shall we saye then that Abraham our father, as parteynyng to the flesshe, dyd fynde?

    2For if Abraham were iustified by workes, the hath he wherein to boaste, but not before God.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29If ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heyres accordyng to the promise.

  • John 10:32
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    32Iesus aunswered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my father: for which of the do ye stone me?

  • Acts 3:25
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    25Ye are the chyldren of the prophetes, and of the couenaunt which God made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham: Euen in thy seede shall all the kinredes of the earth be blessed.

  • John 5:17
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    17And Iesus aunswered them: My father worketh hitherto, and I worke.

  • John 8:31
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    31Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleued on him: Yf ye continue in my word, then are ye my very disciples.

  • Luke 16:29
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    29Abraham sayde vnto hym: they haue Moyses and the prophetes, let them heare them.

  • John 9:41
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    41Iesus sayde vnto them, Yf ye were blynde, ye shoulde haue no sinne: But nowe ye say, we see, therfore your sinne remayneth.

  • Jas 2:21
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    21Was not Abraham our father iustified through workes, when he had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the aulter?

  • John 8:23-24
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    23And he sayde vnto them: ye are from beneathe, I am from aboue: ye are of this worlde, I am not of this worlde.

    24I sayde therefore vnto you, that you shall dye in your sinnes. For yf ye beleue not that I am he, ye shall dye in your sinnes.

  • John 5:38-39
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    38His worde haue ye not abydyng in you: For who he hath set, him ye beleue not.

    39Searche the scriptures, for in them ye thynke ye haue eternall lyfe: and they are they which testifie of me.

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    42And they saide: Is not this Iesus, ye sonne of Ioseph, whose father and mother we knowe? Howe is it then that he sayth, I came downe from heauen?

  • John 10:34
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    34Iesus aunswered them: Is it not written in your lawe, I sayde, ye are Gods?

  • John 8:28
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    28Then saide Iesus vnto them: When ye haue lift vp an hye the sonne of man, then shall ye knowe that I am he, and that I do nothyng of my selfe: but as my father hath taught me, euen so I speake these thynges.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18To whom it was saide, that in Isaac shall thy seede be called.