John 8:40

World English Bible (2000)

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

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  • John 8:26 : 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."
  • Rev 12:12-13 : 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time." 13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
  • Rev 12:17 : 17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
  • Rev 12:4 : 4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • 1 John 3:12-15 : 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
  • Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
  • Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
  • John 8:37-38 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
  • John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
  • Rom 4:12 : 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:37-39
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    37I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

    38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

  • John 8:41-47
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    41You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

    42Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

    43Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

    44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

    45But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

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

    47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

  • John 8:52-58
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    52Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'

    53Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

    54Jesus 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.

    55You 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.

    56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."

    57The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

    58Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

  • John 7:19-20
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    19Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

    20The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

  • John 8:32-33
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    32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

    33They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"

  • John 8:19
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    19They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

  • John 10:32-33
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    32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

    33The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."

  • John 8:13-14
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    13The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

    14Jesus 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.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and don't begin to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father;' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

  • John 5:38-40
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    38You 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.

    40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

  • John 8:23-26
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    23He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

    25They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

    26I 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 8:49-50
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    49Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

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

  • John 5:33
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    33You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

  • John 5:18
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    18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

  • Gal 4:16
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    16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

  • John 18:8
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    8Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

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

  • Matt 3:9
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    9Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

  • John 18:37
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    37Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

  • John 5:45
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    45"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

  • John 10:36
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    36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

  • John 8:21
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    21Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

  • John 7:25
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    25Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

  • Gen 20:10
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    10Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"