John 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² If I have told you of things that happen right here on the earth and yet none of you believes Me, how can you believe (trust Me, adhere to Me, rely on Me) if I tell you of heavenly things?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Common English Bible

¹² If I have told you about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² If I have spoken to you about earthly things, and you have not believed, then how will you believe, if I will speak to you about heavenly things?

John 3:12 Cross References

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John 3:5

Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 Timothy 3:16

Without any doubt, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.”

John 3:11

“Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, yet you do not receive our testimony.