John 8:39

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Gal 3:7 : 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
  • John 8:37 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
  • Rom 9:7 : 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendants be called.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • Gal 3:29 : 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
  • Jas 2:22-24 : 22 Do you see how faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. And he was called the Friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still uncircumcised.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end that the promise might be sure to all the descendants; not to those only who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

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  • John 8:36-38
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    36If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

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

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

  • John 8:40-47
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    40But 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.

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

    42Jesus 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.

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

    44You 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.

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

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

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

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

  • Matt 3:9
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    9And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

  • John 8:33-34
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    33They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free?

    34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

  • John 8:52-58
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    74%

    52Then the Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my word, he shall never taste death.

    53Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead: whom do you make yourself out to be?

    54Jesus 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:

    55Yet 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.

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

    57Then the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?

    58Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.

  • Gal 3:7
    74%

    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

  • John 8:19
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    19Then 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 6:28-30
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    28Then they said to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

    29Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.

    30They said therefore to him, What sign do you show then, that we may see, and believe you? What do you work?

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus 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 10:37-38
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    37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But 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.

  • Rom 9:7-8
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    7Neither, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendants be called.

    8That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

  • Rom 4:1-2
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    1What shall we say then that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?

    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has reason to boast; but not before God.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  • John 10:32
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    32Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?

  • Acts 3:25
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    25You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

  • John 8:31
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    31Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;

  • Luke 16:29
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    29Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

  • John 9:41
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    41Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

  • Jas 2:21
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    21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

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

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

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

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    34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?

  • John 8:28
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    28Then 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.

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    18of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called,'