John 8:58

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

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  • Exod 3:14 : 14 And God saith unto Moses, `I AM THAT WHICH I AM;' He saith also, `Thus dost thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.'
  • John 17:5 : 5 `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
  • John 17:24 : 24 `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
  • Col 1:17 : 17 and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
  • Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus said Jehovah, king of Israel, And his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: `I `am' the first, and I the last, And besides Me there is no God.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
  • Heb 1:10-12 : 10 and, `Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens; 11 these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old, 12 and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'
  • Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth -- to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth `are' of old, From the days of antiquity.
  • Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
  • Rev 2:8 : 8 `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;
  • John 1:1-2 : 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; 2 this one was in the beginning with God;
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
  • John 8:51 : 51 verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'
  • Rev 1:11 : 11 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Even from the day I `am' He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?
  • Prov 8:22-30 : 22 Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then. 23 From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth. 24 In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy `with' waters, 25 Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth. 26 While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world. 27 In His preparing the heavens I `am' there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep, 28 In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep, 29 In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth, 30 Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight -- day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,
  • Isa 44:8 : 8 Fear not, nor be afraid, Have I not from that time caused thee to hear, and declared? And ye `are' My witnesses, Is there a God besides Me? yea, there is none, A Rock I have not known.
  • Isa 46:9 : 9 Remember former things of old, For I `am' Mighty, and there is none else, God -- and there is none like Me.
  • Isa 48:12 : 12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel, My called one, I `am' He, I `am' first, and I `am' last;

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