John 8:47 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁷ Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁷ Whoever is of God listens to God. [Those who belong to God hear the words of God.] This is the reason that you do not listen [to those words, to Me]: because you do not belong to God and are not of God or in harmony with Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Common English Bible

⁴⁷ God’s children listen to God’s words. You don’t listen to me because you aren’t God’s children.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁷ Whoever is of God, hears the words of God. For this reason, you do not hear them: because you are not of God."

John 8:47 Cross References

2 John 1:9

Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

John 18:37

Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

1 John 3:10

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.

John 8:45

But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

John 8:37

I know that you are descendants of Abraham, yet you look for an opportunity to kill me because there is no place in you for my word.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.

John 6:65

And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.”

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked shall continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

John 5:25

“Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 12:48

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,