John 9:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
  • John 17:4 : 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
  • John 10:37 : 37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
  • John 5:19 : 19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, 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 5:36 : 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.
  • John 10:32 : 32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
  • Isa 38:18-19 : 18 For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth.
  • Luke 13:32-34 : 32 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.' 34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

  • John 11:9-10
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    9 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

    10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

  • John 5:16-17
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    16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

    17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

  • John 4:34-35
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    34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

    35 Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

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    35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

    36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

  • John 6:27-29
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    27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

    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."

  • 3 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

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    45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.

    46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

  • John 7:6-8
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    6 Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

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

    8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

  • 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

  • 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

  • John 5:35-36
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    35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

    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.

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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."

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

  • 39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

  • 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

  • 19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, 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.

  • 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

  • 16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

  • 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

  • 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

  • 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

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

  • 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 8:20-21
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    20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

    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."

  • 23 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

  • 43 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."

  • 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

  • 23 Man goes forth to his work, To his labor until the evening.

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

  • 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."

  • 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

  • 4 He needed to pass through Samaria.

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