John 3:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you 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 which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.”

John 3:5

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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 expiation for our sins.

1 Timothy 3:16

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:11

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony.