John 7:17 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

¹⁷ If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My own accord and on My own authority.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Whoever wants to do God’s will can tell whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ If anyone has chosen to do his will, then he will realize, about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.

John 7:17 Cross References

Matthew 6:22

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If then yoʋr eye is clear, yoʋr whole body will be full of light.

Luke 8:15

But the seed in the good soil are those who hear the word, hold fast to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.

John 3:21

But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that it may be evident that his works have been done in God.”

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot bear to accept my word.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks lies, he speaks from his own character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:47

Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is because you do not belong to God.”

Acts 17:11

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, and they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.