John 4:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.
  • Ps 51:17 : 17 The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit– O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
  • Matt 15:8-9 : 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, 9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the LORD said to Samuel,“Don’t be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
  • Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoever presents a thank-offering honors me. To whoever obeys my commands, I will reveal my power to deliver.”
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
  • Ps 50:13-15 : 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? 14 Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the Most High! 15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”

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    19The woman said to him,“Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

    20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

    21Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

    22You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

    23But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • John 14:17
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    17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

  • John 4:25
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    25The woman said to him,“I know that Messiah is coming”(the one called Christ);“whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

  • John 17:17
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    17Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

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    1Testing the Spirits Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

    3but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

  • 1 John 4:6
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    6We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

  • John 3:5-8
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    5Jesus answered,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

    6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7Do not be amazed that I said to you,‘You must all be born from above.’

    8The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

  • 1 Cor 3:16
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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

  • 2 Cor 3:17
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    17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.

  • 1 Cor 14:25
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    25The secrets of his heart are disclosed, and in this way he will fall down with his face to the ground and worship God, declaring,“God is really among you.”

  • 1 John 5:6-7
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    6Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

    7For there are three that testify,

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    24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

  • John 3:34
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    34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

  • John 3:21
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    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • Rom 8:9
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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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    4Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

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    32and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

  • John 16:13
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    13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

  • Eph 4:23-24
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    23to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

    24and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image– in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

  • John 14:6
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    6Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

  • 1 John 5:20
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    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

  • Eph 5:9
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    9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–

  • John 17:19
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    19And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

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    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

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    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.

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    4With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”

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    5For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

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    28So then they said to him,“What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?”

    29Jesus replied,“This is the deed God requires– to believe in the one whom he sent.”

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    4We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

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    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • Eph 4:6
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    6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

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