John 12:50

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

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Referenced Verses

  • John 6:68 : 68 Simon Peter answered him,“Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
  • John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • John 6:63 : 63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
  • 1 John 2:25 : 25 Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.
  • 1 John 3:23-24 : 23 Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment. 24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
  • 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life. 13 Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

  • John 14:30-31
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    77%

    30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 15:9-12
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    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

    10If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • John 8:26
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    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 8:28-29
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    74%

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

    29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

  • John 10:15
    74%

    15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 14:25
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    25“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • John 8:38
    72%

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • John 10:17-18
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    72%

    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

    18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

  • John 14:20-21
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    72%

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

    21The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

  • John 14:10-11
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    72%

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 5:30
    72%

    30I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

  • John 16:15
    72%

    15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

  • John 5:36
    71%

    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

  • John 17:8
    71%

    8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

  • John 17:2-3
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    2just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

    3Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

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    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • John 6:39-40
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    39Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

    40For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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    71%

    57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

  • John 15:17
    71%

    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • John 10:27
    71%

    27My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

  • John 5:24
    70%

    24“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

  • John 14:15
    70%

    15Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

  • John 5:19
    70%

    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

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    70%

    51I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

  • John 8:16
    70%

    16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

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    70%

    30The Father and I are one.”

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    70%

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • John 15:15
    70%

    15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

  • Matt 11:27
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    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

  • John 12:28
    70%

    28Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

  • John 7:29
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    29but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

  • John 6:47-48
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    47I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

    48I am the bread of life.

  • John 8:14
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    14Jesus answered,“Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

  • John 17:13
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    13But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

  • John 16:25
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    25“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 17:25
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    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

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    34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.