John 9:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

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  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; 10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
  • Col 4:5 : 5 in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;
  • John 17:4 : 4 I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do `it'.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
  • John 10:37 : 37 if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;
  • John 5:19 : 19 Jesus 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;
  • John 5:36 : 36 `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.
  • John 10:32 : 32 Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'
  • Isa 38:18-19 : 18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
  • Luke 13:32-34 : 32 and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third `day' I am being perfected; 33 but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the `day' following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem. 34 `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 5 when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

  • John 11:9-10
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    9 Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

    10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

  • John 5:16-17
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    16 and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

    17 And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

  • John 4:34-35
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    34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

    35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

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    35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

    36 while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

  • John 6:27-29
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    27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'

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

    29 Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'

  • 3 Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

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    45 and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;

    46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;

  • John 7:6-8
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    6 Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;

    7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

    8 Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;'

  • 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

  • 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

  • John 5:35-36
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    35 he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.

    36 `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

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

    38 and 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.'

  • 21 but 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.'

  • 39 And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

  • 9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

  • 19 Jesus 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;

  • 4 I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do `it'.

  • 16 so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.

  • 38 I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

  • 9 six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

  • 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

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

  • 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.

  • John 8:20-21
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    20 These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

    21 therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

  • 23 And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified;

  • 43 and he said unto them -- `Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;'

  • 2 this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

  • 23 Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service -- till evening.

  • 33 if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

  • 26 many 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.'

  • 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

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    10 Believest 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;

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

  • 28 Jesus, 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;

  • 14 and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

  • 4 and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

  • 23 and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;