John 5:31

Geneva Bible (1560)

If I should beare witnesse of my selfe, my witnesse were not true.

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  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man prayse thee, and not thine owne mouth: a stranger, and not thine owne lips.
  • John 8:13-14 : 13 The Pharises therefore saide vnto him, Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe: thy recorde is not true. 14 Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, Though I beare recorde of my selfe, yet my recorde is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I goe.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 And vnto the Angell of the Church of the Laodiceans write, These things saieth Amen, the faithfull and true witnesse, that beginning of the creatures of God.

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  • John 5:32-34
    3 verses
    87%

    32 There is another that beareth witnesse of me, and I know that the witnesse, which he beareth of me, is true.

    33 Ye sent vnto Iohn, and he bare witnesse vnto the trueth.

    34 But I receiue not the record of man: neuerthelesse these things I say, that ye might be saued.

  • John 8:13-18
    6 verses
    84%

    13 The Pharises therefore saide vnto him, Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe: thy recorde is not true.

    14 Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, Though I beare recorde of my selfe, yet my recorde is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I goe.

    15 Ye iudge after the flesh: I iudge no man.

    16 And if I also iudge, my iudgement is true: for I am not alone, but I, and the Father, that sent mee.

    17 And it is also written in your Lawe, that the testimonie of two men is true.

    18 I am one that beare witnes of my selfe, and the Father that sent me, beareth witnes of me.

  • 30 I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.

  • John 5:36-39
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    36 But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.

    37 And the Father himselfe, which hath sent me, beareth witnesse of me. Ye haue not heard his voyce at any time, neither haue ye seene his shape.

    38 And his worde haue you not abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye beleeued not.

    39 Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.

  • 28 Yee your selues are my witnesses, that I sayde, I am not that Christ, but that I am sent before him.

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    37 If I doe not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not.

    38 But if I doe, then though ye beleeue not mee, yet beleeue the workes, that ye may knowe and beleeue, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54 Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.

    55 Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.

  • 50 And I seeke not mine owne praise: but there is one that seeketh it, and iudgeth.

  • 18 Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie: but hee that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnes is in him.

  • 25 Iesus answered them, I tolde you, and ye beleeue not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers Name, they beare witnes of me.

  • 46 Which of you can rebuke me of sinne? and if I say the trueth, why do ye not beleeue me?

  • 41 I receiue not the prayse of men.

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    9 If we receiue the witnesse of men, the witnesse of God is greater: for this is the witnesse of God, which he testified of his Sonne.

    10 He that beleeueth in that Sonne of God, hath the witnes in himselfe: he that beleeueth not God, hath made him a lyar, because he beleeued not ye record, that God witnessed of that his Sonne.

  • 26 I haue many things to say, & to iudge of you: but he that sent me, is true, & the things that I haue heard of him, those speake I to the world.

  • John 3:32-33
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    32 And what hee hath seene and heard, that he testifieth: but no ma receiueth his testimonie.

    33 He that hath receiued his testimonie, hath sealed that God is true.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3 As touching me, I passe very litle to be iudged of you, or of mans iudgement: no, I iudge not mine owne selfe.

    4 For I know nothing by my selfe, yet am I not thereby iustified: but he that iudgeth me, is the Lord.

  • 11 Verely, verely I say vnto thee, wee speake that we know, and testifie that we haue seene: but yee receiue not our witnesse.

  • 19 Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.

  • 47 But if ye beleeue not his writings, how shal ye beleeue my wordes?

  • 49 For I haue not spoken of my selfe: but the Father which sent me, hee gaue me a commaundement what I should say, and what I should speake.

  • John 5:43-44
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    43 I am come in my Fathers Name, and ye receiue me not: if another shall come in his owne name, him will ye receiue.

    44 How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone?

  • 26 But when that Comforter shall come, whom I will send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth of the Father, he shall testifie of me.

  • 11 Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake.

  • 28 Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.

  • 16 Iesus answered them, and saide, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28 Then cried Iesus in the Temple as hee taught, saying, Ye both knowe mee, and knowe whence I am: yet am I not come of my selfe, but he that sent me, is true, whome ye knowe not.

    29 But I knowe him: for I am of him, and he hath sent me.

  • 34 And I sawe, and bare record that this is that Sonne of God.

  • 5 A faithfull witnes will not lye: but a false record will speake lyes.

  • 71 Then sayd they, What neede we any further witnes? for we our selues haue heard it of his owne mouth.

  • 56 For many bare false witnesse against him, but their witnesse agreed not together.

  • 16 If a false witnesse rise vp against a man to accuse him of trespasse,

  • 25 And had no neede that any should testifie of man: for he knewe what was in man.

  • 20 If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked.