John 8:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me and respect Me and welcome Me gladly, for I proceeded (came forth) from God [out of His very presence]. I did not even come on My own authority or of My own accord (as self-appointed); but He sent Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

Common English Bible

⁴² Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God. Here I am. I haven’t come on my own. God sent me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² Then Jesus said to them: "If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

John 8:42 Cross References

John 12:49

for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak.

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 17:8

for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

John 17:25

“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.

1 Corinthians 16:22

Let anyone be accursed who has no love for the Lord. Our Lord, come!

John 3:17

“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

John 13:3

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God,

John 16:30

Now we know that you know all things and do not need to have anyone question you; by this we believe that you came from God.”

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.