John 8:47 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁷ He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

John 8:47 Cross References

Daniel 12:10

Many shall purify themselves; and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand: but they that be wise shall understand.

John 12:48

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

John 18:37

Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

John 5:25

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

John 6:65

And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.

John 8:37

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

John 8:43

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

John 8:45

But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

1 John 5:1

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

2 John 1:9

Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.