John 7:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.

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  • John 8:31-32 : 31 Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, 32 and the truth shall make you free.'
  • John 8:43 : 43 wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.
  • Phil 3:15-16 : 15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you, 16 but to what we have come -- by the same rule walk, the same thing think;
  • Acts 11:13-14 : 13 he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter, 14 who shall speak sayings by which thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.
  • John 8:47 : 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 Who `is' this -- the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.
  • Ps 119:10 : 10 With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.
  • Ps 119:101-102 : 101 From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word. 102 From Thy judgments I turned not aside, For Thou -- Thou hast directed me.
  • Isa 35:8 : 8 And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself `is' by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 For this `is' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. 34 And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.
  • Dan 12:10 : 10 Purify themselves, yea, make themselves white, yea, refined are many: and the wicked have done wickedly, and none of the wicked understand, and those acting wisely do understand;
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The secret of Jehovah `is' for those fearing Him, And His covenant -- to cause them to know.
  • Matt 6:22 : 22 `The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright `is' Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. 9 He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain `it', and bear fruit in continuance.
  • John 1:46-49 : 46 and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.' 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;' 48 Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.' 49 Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'
  • Acts 10:1-6 : 1 And there was a certain man in Cesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, 2 pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always, 3 he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;' 4 and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God, 5 and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter, 6 this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.'
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
  • Mic 4:2 : 2 And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

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  • 16Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

  • 18`He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

  • John 5:30-31
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    30`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

    31`If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

  • Luke 6:46-47
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    46`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

    47Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like;

  • 38because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

  • Matt 7:20-21
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    20therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

    21`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

  • 16If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'

  • 17if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

  • 4for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'

  • 7if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

  • 34Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

  • 21he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

  • 28Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am `he'; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

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    37if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

    38and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me `is' the Father, and I in Him.'

  • 19Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

  • 24`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

  • John 8:46-47
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    46Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

    47he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

  • 7if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

  • 14Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

  • 35for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

  • 45it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

  • 26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

  • John 7:27-29
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    27but this one -- we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.'

    28Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

    29and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'

  • 36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

  • 16And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that `it is' good,

  • 40and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

  • 49because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

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    23Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

    24he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • 55and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

  • 27`All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal `Him'.

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    10Believest thou not that I `am' in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;

    11believe me, that I `am' in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

  • 24judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

  • 51`Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'

  • 20And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

  • 28They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

  • 17for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

  • 50for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

  • 21but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

  • 16and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;

  • 24Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

  • 23If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'