John 8:41

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Ye{G5210} do{G4160} the works{G2041} of your{G5216} father.{G3962} {G3767} They{G2036} said unto him,{G846} We{G2249} were{G1080} not{G3756} born{G1080} of{G1537} fornication;{G4202} we have{G2192} one{G1520} Father,{G3962} [even] God.{G2316}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Ye{G5210} do{G4160}{(G5719)} the deeds{G2041} of your{G5216} father{G3962}. Then{G3767} said they{G2036}{(G5627)} to him{G846}, We{G2249} be{G1080} not{G3756} born{G1080}{(G5769)} of{G1537} fornication{G4202}; we have{G2192}{(G5719)} one{G1520} Father{G3962}, even God{G2316}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father which is God.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: We are not borne of fornicacion, we haue one father, euen God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, `even' God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • John 8:38 : 38 I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.
  • 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.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father who has bought you? Has he not made you, and established you?
  • Isa 57:3-7 : 3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot. To them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I find comfort in these? 7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
  • Exod 4:22 : 22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 16:20-21 : 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter, 21 That you have slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
  • Ezek 23:45-47 : 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. 46 For thus says the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be removed and plundered. 47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
  • Hos 1:2 : 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD through Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the LORD.
  • Hos 2:2-5 : 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy on her children; for they are the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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