John 8:42

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

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  • John 17:8 : 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
  • John 12:49 : 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
  • John 3:17 : 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
  • 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
  • John 5:23 : 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
  • John 5:43 : 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
  • John 7:28-29 : 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
  • John 16:27-28 : 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 16:27-28
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    27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

    28I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

    38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

    39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

    41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  • John 8:18-19
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    18I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

    19Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

    29But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

  • John 5:42-43
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    42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

    43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

    55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

  • John 6:38
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    38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

  • John 8:43-44
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    43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

    44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  • John 6:42
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    42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

  • John 8:23-24
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    23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

  • John 8:14
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    14Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

  • John 14:28
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    28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

  • John 14:7
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    7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

  • John 8:28-29
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    28Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

    29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

  • John 12:49
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    49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

  • John 10:36-37
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    36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

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

  • John 5:36-38
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    36But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

    37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

    38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

  • John 15:22-24
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    22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

    23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

    24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  • John 8:46-47
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    46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

    47He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

  • John 8:16
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    16And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

  • John 14:24
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    24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

  • John 6:65
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    65And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

  • John 17:8
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    8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

  • John 8:26
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    26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

  • John 12:45
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    45And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

  • John 7:16
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    16Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

  • John 6:44-45
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    44No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

  • John 14:10
    70%

    10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

  • John 15:26
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    26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

  • John 8:21
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    21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.