John 10:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 14:28 : 28 You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
  • John 17:2 : 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
  • John 6:37 : 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
  • John 17:6 : 6 Jesus Prays for the Disciples“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.
  • Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”
  • Ps 145:3 : 3 The LORD is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness!
  • Dan 4:3 : 3 “How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom will last forever, and his authority continues from one generation to the next.”
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”
  • John 17:9 : 9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.
  • John 17:11 : 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 10:27-28
    2 verses
    91%

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

    28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

  • John 10:30
    79%

    30The Father and I are one.”

  • John 10:14-18
    5 verses
    77%

    14“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–

    15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.

    16I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

    18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

  • John 3:35
    76%

    35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

  • John 6:65
    75%

    65So Jesus added,“Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

  • John 17:6-12
    7 verses
    75%

    6Jesus Prays for the Disciples“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

    7Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

    8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

    9I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

    10Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

    11I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

    12When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

  • John 6:37
    75%

    37Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

  • John 6:39
    75%

    39Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

  • Matt 11:27
    73%

    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 16:15
    73%

    15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

  • John 6:44
    73%

    44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

  • John 17:2
    73%

    2just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

  • Luke 10:22
    73%

    22All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

  • John 10:39
    73%

    39Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

  • John 14:28
    72%

    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • John 17:21-25
    5 verses
    72%

    21that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

    22The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one–

    23I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

    24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 16:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

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

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • John 14:10
    70%

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

  • John 18:9
    70%

    9He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken,“I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

  • John 8:28-29
    2 verses
    70%

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 5:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

    20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

  • John 10:11
    70%

    11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  • John 13:3
    70%

    3Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

  • John 14:20
    69%

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

  • John 15:9
    69%

    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

  • John 10:8
    69%

    8All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

  • John 5:26
    69%

    26For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

  • John 5:36
    69%

    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

  • John 6:46
    68%

    46(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God– he has seen the Father.)

  • John 17:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

    16They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

  • Matt 10:29
    68%

    29Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.