John 8:37 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁷ I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ [Yes] I know that you are Abraham's offspring; yet you plan to kill Me, because My word has no entrance (makes no progress, does not find any place) in you.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

Common English Bible

³⁷ I know that you are Abraham’s children, yet you want to kill me because you don’t welcome my teaching.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ I know that you are sons of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word has not taken hold in you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

John 8:37 Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.’

Matthew 3:9

and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

John 10:31

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

John 11:53

So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death.

John 5:44

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 7:1

After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”

John 7:25

Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?

John 8:33

They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

John 8:43

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

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.”

John 8:59

So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

John 8:6

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

Acts 13:26

“Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

Romans 9:7

and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 John 2:14

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.