John 8:47

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the children of God, to those who believe in his name: 13 Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • John 6:45-46 : 45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught by God. Every man therefore who has heard, and has learned from the Father, comes to me. 46 Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God, he has seen the Father.
  • John 6:65 : 65 And he said, Therefore I said to you, that no man can come to me, except it were given to him by my Father.
  • 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.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.
  • John 8:45 : 45 And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
  • John 10:26-27 : 26 But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 17:6-8 : 6 I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are from you. 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.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
  • 1 John 3:10 : 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.
  • 1 John 4:1-6 : 1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and even now it is already in the world. 4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.
  • 2 John 1:9 : 9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

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  • John 8:37-46
    10 verses
    83%

    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.

    39They 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.

    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?

  • 1 John 4:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

    6We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

  • John 10:25-27
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    26But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep, as I said to you.

    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  • John 8:48
    77%

    48Then the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say rightly that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?

  • John 8:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    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 9:31
    75%

    31Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if any man is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears.

  • John 8:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26I 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.

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

  • John 14:24
    72%

    24He 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.

  • John 8:52
    72%

    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.

  • John 8:19
    72%

    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 3:11
    72%

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

  • John 6:65
    71%

    65And he said, Therefore I said to you, that no man can come to me, except it were given to him by my Father.

  • John 3:34
    71%

    34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure to him.

  • John 8:55
    71%

    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.

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    71%

    13This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

  • John 12:48
    71%

    48He who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him: the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

  • John 17:16
    71%

    16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • John 7:7
    71%

    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.

  • Mark 7:16
    71%

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • John 7:36
    71%

    36What does he mean by saying, You will seek me and not find me, and where I am, you cannot come?

  • John 6:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    45It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught by God. Every man therefore who has heard, and has learned from the Father, comes to me.

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

  • John 10:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Matt 11:15
    70%

    15He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • John 9:33
    70%

    33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

  • John 16:9
    70%

    9Of sin, because they do not believe in me;

  • Acts 28:26
    70%

    26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

  • John 8:31
    70%

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

  • John 10:33
    70%

    33The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.