John 6:54

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

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  • John 6:39-40 : 39 Now 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. 40 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.”
  • Phil 3:7-9 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ, 9 and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness. 10 My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death,
  • John 6:47 : 47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.
  • John 6:63 : 63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
  • Ps 22:26 : 26 Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the LORD! May you live forever!
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” To those who lack understanding, she has said, 5 “Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed. 6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”
  • Isa 25:6-8 : 6 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine– tender meat and choicest wine. 7 On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations; 8 he will swallow up death permanently. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the LORD has announced it!
  • Isa 55:1-3 : 1 The Lord Gives an Invitation“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost! 2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food! 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
  • 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 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.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 6:47-53
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    90%

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

    48I am the bread of life.

    49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

    50This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

    51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

    52Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another,“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

    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.

  • John 6:55-60
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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.

    58This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

    59Many Followers Depart Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

    60Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said,“This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

  • John 6:39-41
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    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.

    40For 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.”

    41Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said,“I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

  • John 6:31-35
    5 verses
    76%

    31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

    32Then Jesus told them,“I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

    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.

  • John 6:62-63
    2 verses
    75%

    62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

    63The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

  • John 6:27
    73%

    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.”

  • Mark 14:22
    72%

    22The Lord’s Supper While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said,“Take it. This is my body.”

  • Gen 9:4
    72%

    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • 1 Cor 11:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

    27For this reason, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

  • John 4:32
    71%

    32But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

  • John 5:24-25
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    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.

    25I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming– and is now here– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

  • John 6:44
    71%

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

  • Mark 14:24
    71%

    24He said to them,“This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many.

  • John 7:37
    70%

    37Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

  • John 4:34
    70%

    34Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

  • Matt 26:26
    70%

    26The Lord’s Supper While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said,“Take, eat, this is my body.”

  • John 4:14
    70%

    14But 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.”

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    70%

    29For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

  • Lev 17:14
    69%

    14for the life of all flesh is its blood. So I have said to the Israelites: You must not eat the blood of any living thing because the life of every living thing is its blood– all who eat it will be cut off.

  • Deut 12:23
    69%

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

  • Lev 17:11
    69%

    11for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

  • John 3:36
    69%

    36The 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 12:25
    69%

    25The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

  • Lev 7:27
    69%

    27Any person who eats any blood– that person will be cut off from his people.’”

  • John 11:26
    69%

    26and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

  • John 8:51
    68%

    51I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

  • John 3:15
    68%

    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

  • 1 John 5:6
    68%

    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.

  • John 14:19
    68%

    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

  • Ezek 39:19
    68%

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.