John 8:42

KJV1611 – Modern English

Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.

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  • John 17:8 : 8 For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have surely known that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
  • John 12:49 : 49 For I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
  • John 14:10 : 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own: but the Father who dwells in me does the works.
  • John 3:17 : 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Maranatha.
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
  • 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
  • John 7:28-29 : 28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple as he taught, saying, You both know me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know. 29 But I know him, for I am from him, and he sent me.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
  • John 16:27-28 : 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

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  • John 16:27-28
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    81%

    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

    28I came forth from the Father and have come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

    39They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this.

    41You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  • John 8:18-19
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    79%

    18I am one who bears witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me.

    19Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.

  • John 7:28-29
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    28Then Jesus cried out in the temple as he taught, saying, You both know me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

    29But I know him, for I am from him, and he sent me.

  • John 8:54-55
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    54Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father who honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God:

    55Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.

  • John 6:38
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    38For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

  • John 8:43-44
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    43Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

    44You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  • John 6:42
    75%

    42And they said, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?

  • John 8:23-24
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    23And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you do not believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins.

  • John 8:14
    75%

    14Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true: for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you cannot tell where I come from, and where I am going.

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

  • John 14:7
    74%

    7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also: and from now on you know him, and have seen him.

  • John 8:28-29
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    28Then Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.

    29And he who sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I always do those things that please him.

  • John 12:49
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    49For I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

  • John 10:36-37
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    36Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?

    37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

  • John 15:22-24
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    72%

    22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

    23He who hates me hates my Father also.

    24If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  • John 8:46-47
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    72%

    46Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

    47He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.

  • John 8:16
    72%

    16And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.

  • John 14:24
    72%

    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 6:65
    72%

    65And he said, Therefore I said to you, that no man can come to me, except it were given to him by my Father.

  • John 17:8
    72%

    8For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have surely known that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

  • John 8:26
    71%

    26I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him.

  • John 12:45
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    45And he who sees me sees him who sent me.

  • John 7:16
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    16Jesus answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

  • John 8:49
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    49Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • John 6:44-45
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    44No man can come to me, except the Father who has sent me draws him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    45It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught by God. Every man therefore who has heard, and has learned from the Father, comes to me.

  • John 14:10
    70%

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own: but the Father who dwells in me does the works.

  • John 15:26
    70%

    26But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of me.

  • John 8:21
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    21Then Jesus said again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come.