1 John 5:9 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁹ If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; because this is the testimony of God which He has testified concerning His Son.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [if we are willing to take human authority], the testimony of God is greater (of stronger authority), for this is the testimony of God, even the witness which He has borne regarding His Son.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.

Common English Bible

⁹ If we receive human testimony, God’s testimony is greater, because this is what God testified: he has testified about his Son.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If we accept the testimony of men, then the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater: that he has testified about his Son.

1 John 5:9 Cross References

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice [came] out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

John 10:38

but if I am doing [them], even if you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

John 5:39

You search the Scriptures, because you think [that] in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about Me.

Acts 17:31

because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by [the] Man whom He has appointed, having given proof to all, by raising Him from the dead."

Acts 5:32

And we are His witnesses of these words, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him."

Hebrews 2:4

God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?

Hebrews 6:18

in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled to take hold of the hope being set before [us];

1 John 5:10

He that believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning His Son.

1 John 5:8

the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.