John 4:24

World English Bible (2000)

God is spirit, and those 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, there is liberty.
  • Ps 51:17 : 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
  • Matt 15:8-9 : 8 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
  • Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • Ps 50:13-15 : 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

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  • John 4:19-23
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    19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

    20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

    21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

    22 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

    23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

  • 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

  • 25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

  • 17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

  • 1 John 4:1-3
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    1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

    3 and every spirit who doesn't confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

  • 6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

  • John 3:5-8
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    5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

    6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

    7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

    8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

  • 16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

  • 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

  • 25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

  • 1 John 5:6-7
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    6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

    7 For there are three who testify:

  • 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,

  • 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

  • 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

  • 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

  • 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

  • 4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

  • 31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

  • 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

  • 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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

    24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

  • 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

  • 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  • 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

  • 19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

  • 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"

  • 26 "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

  • 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

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    10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.

  • 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

  • 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

  • John 6:28-29
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    28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"

    29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

  • 4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

  • 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

  • 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.