John 12:50 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁰ And I know that His commandment is (means) eternal life. So whatever I speak, I am saying [exactly] what My Father has told Me to say and in accordance with His instructions.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.

Common English Bible

⁵⁰ I know that his commandment is eternal life. Therefore, whatever I say is just as the Father has said to me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Therefore, the things that I speak, just as the Father has said to me, so also do I speak."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁰ And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.

John 12:50 Cross References

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own but only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

1 Timothy 1:16

But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience as an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life.

1 John 2:25

And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.