John 3:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁷ 5 The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

Common English Bible

²⁷ John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it is given from heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ John responded and said: "A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

John 3:27 Cross References

Jeremiah 1:5

3 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying: What seest thou? I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north.

Jeremiah 17:16

4 And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:

Amos 7:15

That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?

Numbers 17:5

0 And the Lord said to Moses: Carry back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony, that it may be kept there for a token of the rebellious children of Israel, and that their complaints may cease from me lest they die.

Matthew 21:25

3 Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country.

Matthew 25:15

3 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Mark 13:34

For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

John 10:41

Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea again.

John 6:65

Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.

Romans 1:5

3 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you, (and have been hindered hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Romans 12:6

4 Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not.

1 Corinthians 1:1

0 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 12:11

0 But now there are many members indeed, yet one body.

1 Corinthians 15:10

9 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

1 Corinthians 3:5

4 If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 4:7

6 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

Galatians 1:1

0 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Ephesians 1:1

0 In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

1 Timothy 2:7

A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

James 1:17

6 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.