John 3:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

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  • 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;
  • Matt 21:25 : 25 the baptism of John, whence was it? -- from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
  • Matt 25:15 : 15 and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.
  • Mark 11:30-31 : 30 the baptism of John -- from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.' 31 And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
  • Mark 13:34 : 34 as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;
  • Num 16:9-9 : 9 is it little to you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the company of Israel to bring you near unto Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the company to serve them? -- 10 yea, He doth bring thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee -- and ye have sought also the priesthood! 11 Therefore, thou and all thy company who are met `are' against Jehovah; and Aaron, what `is' he, that ye murmur against him?'
  • Num 17:5 : 5 `And it hath come to pass, the man's rod on whom I fix doth flourish, and I have caused to cease from off me the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they are murmuring against you.'
  • 1 Chr 28:4-5 : 4 `And Jehovah, God of Israel, doth fix on me out of all the house of my father to be for king over Israel to the age, for on Judah He hath fixed for a leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, on me, `me' He hath been pleased to make king over all Israel; 5 and out of all my sons -- for many sons hath Jehovah given to me -- He also fixeth on Solomon my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel,
  • Jer 1:5 : 5 `Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'
  • Jer 17:16 : 16 And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,
  • Amos 7:15 : 15 and Jehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Jehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.
  • 1 Cor 12:11 : 11 and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;
  • Gal 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle -- not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead --
  • Eph 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
  • Eph 3:7-8 : 7 of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
  • Heb 5:4-5 : 4 and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron: 5 so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; 11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.
  • Rom 12:6 : 6 And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!'
  • 1 Cor 1:1 : 1 Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
  • 1 Cor 2:12-14 : 12 And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that `is' of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us, 13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing, 14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

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