John 5:40 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁰ But you do not want to come to me [i.e., to believe in me. See verse 38] so that you will have [never ending] life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ And still you are not willing [but refuse] to come to Me, so that you might have life.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ yet you don’t want to come to me so that you can have life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ And you are not willing to come to me, so that you may have life.

John 5:40 Cross References

Matthew 22:3

He sent his servants out to call those who had been invited to the wedding reception, but they refused to come.

Matthew 23:37

“O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [you people] who murdered the prophets and stoned those who were sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather you people together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

John 1:11

[Then] He came to His own [world, while on earth], but His own [people, the Israelites] did not welcome Him.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that people could have life to its fullest.

John 3:19

Now this is [how God’s] judgment [works]: The Light [See 1:5-9] has come into the world, but people loved darkness [i.e., sin] rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.

John 5:39

You search through the Scriptures [i.e., the Old Testament], because you think that you will [learn how to] have never ending life by [reading] them. And these Scriptures are what testify concerning me.

John 5:41

“I do not accept honor from mankind,

John 5:44

How can you believe [in me] when you [offer and] accept honors from one another, but do not try to obtain the honor that comes from the only God?

John 6:27

Do not work for the [kind of] food that spoils, but for the kind that lasts until never ending life. The Son of man will give you this [kind of food], for God the Father has placed His seal [of approval] on Him.”

John 6:37

Every person [Note: The Greek says, “every thing”] whom the Father gives me will [eventually] come to me [i.e., for salvation]; and I will never turn away that person who comes to me.

John 6:40

And this is what [else] my Father wants: That every person who sees the Son [i.e., with the eye of faith] and believes in Him should have never ending life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.”

Romans 6:23

For the wages for sinning is [spiritual] death, but God’s free gift is never ending life in [fellowship with] Christ Jesus our Lord.

Revelation 22:17

And the Holy Spirit and the bride [i.e., the church. See 21:9] say, “Come!” And the person who hears [this] should say “Come.” And the person who is [spiritually] thirsty should come; [and] whoever wants to should come and drink the water of life without having to pay for it.