John 8:42

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore 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.

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  • John 17:8 : 8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
  • John 12:49 : 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 14:10 : 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.
  • John 3:17 : 17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man doesn't love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
  • 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
  • John 5:23 : 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
  • John 5:43 : 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.
  • John 7:28-29 : 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 15:23-24 : 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also. 24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
  • John 16:27-28 : 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • John 1:14 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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  • John 16:27-28
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    27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

    28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

  • John 8:37-41
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    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."

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

    40 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.

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

  • John 8:18-19
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    18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

    19 They 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."

  • 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 5:42-43
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    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

    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.

  • 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 6:38
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    38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

  • John 8:43-44
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    43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

    44 You 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.

  • John 6:42
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    42 They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

  • John 8:23-24
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    23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

    24 I 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."

  • John 8:14
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    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 14:28
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    28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 14:7
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    7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."

  • John 8:28-29
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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.

    29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

  • 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 10:36-37
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    36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'

    37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.

  • John 5:36-38
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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.

  • John 15:22-24
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    22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

    23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.

    24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

  • John 8:46-47
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    46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

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

  • John 8:16
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    16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • John 14:24
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    24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 6:65
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    65 He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."

  • John 17:8
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    8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

  • 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 12:45
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    45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.

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

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

  • John 6:44-45
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    44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

    45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

  • John 14:10
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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.

  • 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 8:21
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    21 Jesus 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."