John 5:31

World English Bible (2000)

"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:2 : 2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
  • John 8:13-14 : 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid." 14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:

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  • John 5:32-34
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    32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

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

    34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

  • John 8:13-18
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    13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

    14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

    15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

    16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

    17 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.

    18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

  • John 5:30
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    30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

  • John 5:36-39
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    36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

    37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

    38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

    39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

  • John 3:28
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    28 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

  • John 10:37-38
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    37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.

    38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

  • John 8:54-55
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    54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

    55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

  • John 8:50
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    50 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

  • John 7:18
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    18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

  • John 10:25
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    25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

  • John 8:46
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    46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

  • John 5:41
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    41 I don't receive glory from men.

  • 1 John 5:9-10
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    9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

    10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

  • John 8:26
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    26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

  • John 3:32-33
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    32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

    33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

  • 1 Cor 4:3-4
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    3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

    4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

  • John 3:11
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    11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

  • John 5:19
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    19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

  • John 5:47
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    47 But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

  • John 12:49
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    49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

  • John 5:43-44
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    43 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

    44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

  • John 15:26
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    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.

  • John 14:11
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    11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.

  • John 8:28
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    28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • John 7:16
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    16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

    29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

  • John 1:34
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    34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."

  • Prov 14:5
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    5 A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

  • Luke 22:71
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    71 They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"

  • Mark 14:56
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    56 For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn't agree with each other.

  • Deut 19:16
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    16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

  • John 2:25
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    25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

  • Job 9:20
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    20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.