John 6:40

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • John 6:54 : 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
  • John 6:27 : 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
  • Isa 45:21-22 : 21 Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me. 22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
  • 1 John 1:1-3 : 1 ¶ The Prologue to the Letter This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched(concerning the word of life– 2 and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us). 3 What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life. 13 Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
  • Jude 1:21 : 21 maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • John 14:19 : 19 In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
  • Luke 2:30 : 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation
  • John 3:15-18 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 5:24 : 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
  • Isa 52:10 : 10 The LORD reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
  • John 12:45 : 45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
  • John 12:50 : 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”
  • John 14:17 : 17 the 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 10:28 : 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
  • John 6:35-37 : 35 Jesus said to them,“I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe. 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
  • Isa 53:2 : 2 He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
  • 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.
  • Rom 5:21 : 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Heb 11:1 : 1 People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

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    33For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

    34So they said to him,“Sir, give us this bread all the time!”

    35Jesus said to them,“I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

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

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    38For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

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    53Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

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    55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

    56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

    57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

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

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    27Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life– the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”

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

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