John 8:37 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

John 8:37 Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

Romans 9:7

neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

John 7:1

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 8:59

They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

Acts 13:26

Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.

John 8:43

Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

John 11:53

So from that day forth they took counsel that they might put him to death.

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

John 10:31

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

John 8:6

And this they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

John 7:25

Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

John 5:44

How can ye believe, which receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

John 8:33

They answered unto him, We be Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

Matthew 3:9

and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

John 8:56

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

1 John 2:14

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him which is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.