John 8:47 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁷ The person who belongs to God listens to the message from God. The reason you will not listen to it is because you do not belong to God.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁷ Whoever is of God listens to God. [Those who belong to God hear the words of God.] This is the reason that you do not listen [to those words, to Me]: because you do not belong to God and are not of God or in harmony with Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Common English Bible

⁴⁷ God’s children listen to God’s words. You don’t listen to me because you aren’t God’s children.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁷ Whoever is of God, hears the words of God. For this reason, you do not hear them: because you are not of God."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁷ He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

John 8:47 Cross References

John 12:48

The person who rejects me and does not accept my message has One who [will] judge him. The message that I have spoken will judge him on the last day [i.e., the judgment day].

John 18:37

So, Pilate said to Him, “Are you a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You are [correct in] calling me a ‘king.’ This was the [very] purpose for which I was born and came into the world, that I should testify about the truth. Every person who wants [to know and obey] the truth listens to me.”

John 5:25

Truly, truly, I tell you, the time is coming, and is now [actually] here, when those who are [spiritually] dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear [i.e., and heed His message] will have [spiritual] life.

John 6:65

Then He said, “This is the reason I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father gives him [the opportunity. See verse 44]. ”

John 8:37

I know that you people are [all] descendants of Abraham; yet you are trying to kill me because you will not allow my message to affect you.

John 8:43

Why do you people not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot [bear to] listen to my message.

John 8:45

But because I tell [you] the truth, you do not believe me.

1 John 3:10

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil can be recognized: All those who do not continue to do what is right do not belong to God. Also, the person who does not continue to love his brother [or sister does not belong to God].

1 John 5:1

Every person who believes that Jesus is the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one] has been [spiritually] conceived [and eventually born] by God. And everyone who [continually] loves God, who did the conceiving, also [must continually] love the person whom God has [spiritually] conceived.

2 John 1:9

Every person who does not continue to follow the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God [in his life]. [But], the person who continues to follow in the teaching [of Christ] has both the Father and the Son [in his life].

3 John 1:11

Dear [friend], do not imitate what is evil, but [only] what is good. The person who does what is good is [a child] of God; the one who does evil has not seen God [spiritually].