John 5:47

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But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”

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  • Luke 16:31 : 31 He replied to him,‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
  • Luke 16:29 : 29 But Abraham said,‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’

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  • John 5:43-46
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    43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

    44 How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

    45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

    46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

  • John 5:38-40
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    38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

    39 You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

    40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

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

    38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

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    44 Jesus’ Final Public Words But Jesus shouted out,“The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

    45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

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    25 Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

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    10 Do 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.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

  • John 8:45-47
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    45 But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

    46 Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

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    11 I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

    12 If I have told you people about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

  • John 5:31-34
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    31 More Testimony About Jesus“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

    32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

    33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

    34 (I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

  • 48 So Jesus said to him,“Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!”

  • 47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

  • 37 The Outcome of Jesus’ Public Ministry Foretold Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

  • 24 Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

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    9 If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son.

    10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)

  • 5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

  • 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

  • 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.

  • 31 But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

  • 5 So they discussed it with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Why did you not believe him?’

  • 48 The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

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

    30 So they said to him,“Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

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  • 31 Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

  • 43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

  • 41 and because of his word many more believed.

  • 31 He replied to him,‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

  • 1 The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?”

  • 31 They discussed with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’

  • 8 “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

  • 40 Jesus responded,“Didn’t I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?”

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