John 8:37 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ [Yes] I know that you are Abraham's offspring; yet you plan to kill Me, because My word has no entrance (makes no progress, does not find any place) in you.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

Common English Bible

³⁷ I know that you are Abraham’s children, yet you want to kill me because you don’t welcome my teaching.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ I know that you are sons of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word has not taken hold in you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

English Standard Version 2016

³⁷ I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.

John 8:37 Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest at any time they should see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And should understand with their heart, And should be converted, and I should heal them.

Matthew 3:9

and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

John 10:31

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

John 11:53

Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

John 7:1

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

John 7:25

Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

John 8:33

They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

John 8:43

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

John 8:59

Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

John 8:6

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

Acts 13:26

Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Romans 9:7

neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 John 2:14

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.