John 9:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

We 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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Referenced Verses

  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus replied,“The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.
  • John 17:4 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”
  • John 10:37 : 37 If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.
  • John 5:19 : 19 So 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.
  • John 5:36 : 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 10:32 : 32 Jesus said to them,“I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”
  • Isa 38:18-19 : 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
  • Luke 13:32-34 : 32 But he said to them,“Go and tell that fox,‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 9:5
    81%

    5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

  • John 11:9-10
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    76%

    9Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

    10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

  • John 5:16-17
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    16Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

  • John 4:34-35
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    74%

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

    35Don’t you say,‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

  • John 12:35-36
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    35Jesus replied,“The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

    36While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

  • John 6:27-29
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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.”

    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.”

  • John 9:3
    72%

    3Jesus answered,“Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

  • John 12:45-46
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    71%

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

    46I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

  • John 7:6-8
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    6So Jesus replied,“My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

    8You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

  • Rom 13:12
    71%

    12The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

  • John 8:12
    71%

    12Jesus as the Light of the World Then Jesus spoke out again,“I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

  • John 5:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

    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 10:37-38
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    37If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But 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.”

  • John 3:21
    70%

    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.

  • John 9:39
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    39Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”

  • John 1:9
    70%

    9The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

  • John 5:19
    69%

    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.

  • John 17:4
    69%

    4I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

  • Matt 5:16
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    16In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

  • John 4:38
    68%

    38I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

  • Exod 20:9
    68%

    9For six days you may labor and do all your work,

  • John 14:31
    68%

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 6:38
    68%

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

  • John 5:30
    68%

    30I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

  • John 8:20-21
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    20(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

    21Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

  • John 12:23
    68%

    23Jesus replied,“The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

  • Luke 4:43
    68%

    43But Jesus said to them,“I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”

  • John 3:2
    68%

    2came to Jesus at night and said to him,“Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”

  • Ps 104:23
    68%

    23Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

  • John 9:33
    68%

    33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

  • John 8:26
    67%

    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 3:19
    67%

    19Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

  • John 14:10-11
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    67%

    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.

    11Believe 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.

  • John 8:28
    67%

    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.

  • John 9:14
    67%

    14(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

  • John 4:4
    67%

    4Conversation With a Samaritan Woman But he had to pass through Samaria.

  • John 8:23
    67%

    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.