John 8:47

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • John 1:12-13 : 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • John 6:45-46 : 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. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
  • John 6:65 : 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 8:37 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
  • John 8:45 : 45 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
  • John 10:26-27 : 26 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 17:6-8 : 6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, 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 18:37 : 37 Pilate 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."
  • 1 John 3:10 : 10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
  • 1 John 4:1-6 : 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. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 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.
  • 1 John 5:1 : 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 John 1:9 : 9 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:37-46
    10 verses
    83%

    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.

    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

    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?

  • 1 John 4:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

    6We 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 5:38-40
    3 verses
    78%

    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 10:25-27
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    26But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  • John 8:48
    77%

    48Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"

  • John 8:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    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."

  • John 9:31
    75%

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

  • John 8:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    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."

    27They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

  • John 5:42
    73%

    42But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

  • John 14:24
    72%

    24He 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 8:52
    72%

    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.'

  • John 8:19
    72%

    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."

  • John 3:11
    72%

    11Most 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 5:47
    72%

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

  • John 6:65
    71%

    65He 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 3:34
    71%

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

  • John 8:55
    71%

    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.

  • Matt 13:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

    14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

  • John 12:48
    71%

    48He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

  • John 17:16
    71%

    16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

  • John 7:7
    71%

    7The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

  • Mark 7:16
    71%

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

  • John 7:36
    71%

    36What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

  • John 6:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    45It 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.

    46Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

  • John 10:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    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?'

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

  • Matt 11:15
    70%

    15He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

  • John 9:33
    70%

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

  • John 16:9
    70%

    9about sin, because they don't believe in me;

  • Acts 28:26
    70%

    26saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

  • John 8:31
    70%

    31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

  • John 10:33
    70%

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