John 8:38

KJV1611 – Modern English

I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

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  • John 8:41 : 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
  • John 3:32 : 32 What he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no one receives his testimony.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own: but the Father who dwells in me does the works.
  • John 14:24 : 24 He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
  • John 8:26 : 26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told me, so I speak.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • John 17:8 : 8 For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have surely known that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:39-47
    9 verses
    83%

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

    40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this.

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

    42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.

    43 Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

    44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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

    46 Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

    47 He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.

  • John 8:37
    80%

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

  • John 8:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18 I am one who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me.

    19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.

  • John 8:26-29
    4 verses
    77%

    26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him.

    27 They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.

    28 Then Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.

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

  • John 8:54-56
    3 verses
    76%

    54 Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father who honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God:

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

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

  • John 14:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9 Jesus said to him, Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; and how do you say then, Show us the Father?

    10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own: but the Father who dwells in me does the works.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.

  • John 10:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

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

    38 But if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him.

  • John 10:25
    75%

    25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

  • John 14:7
    75%

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

  • John 15:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 He who hates me hates my Father also.

    24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  • John 8:49
    74%

    49 Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 12:49-50
    2 verses
    74%

    49 For I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

    50 And I know that his command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told me, so I speak.

  • John 8:23
    74%

    23 And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • John 8:16
    74%

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

  • John 3:11
    74%

    11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.

  • John 6:46
    73%

    46 Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

  • John 8:14
    73%

    14 Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true: for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you cannot tell where I come from, and where I am going.

  • John 10:32
    72%

    32 Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?

  • John 15:8
    72%

    8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you shall be my disciples.

  • John 16:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

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

  • John 16:3
    72%

    3 And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.

  • John 12:45
    72%

    45 And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

  • John 14:28
    72%

    28 You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.