John 6:51

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I am that bread from heaven! Everyone who eats it will live for ever. My flesh is the life-giving bread that I give to the people of this world.

Cross References

Matthew 20:28

The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.

Luke 22:19

Jesus took some bread in his hands and gave thanks for it. He broke the bread and handed it to his apostles. Then he said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Eat this as a way of remembering me!”

John 1:14

The Word became a human being and lived here with us. We saw his true glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father. From him all the kindness and all the truth of God have come down to us.

John 1:29

The next day, John saw Jesus coming towards him and said: Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 11:26

And everyone who lives because of faith in me will never really die. Do you believe this?”

John 3:13

No one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from there.

John 3:14

And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as that metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert.

John 3:16

God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die.

John 3:36

Everyone who has faith in the Son has eternal life. But no one who rejects him will ever share in that life, and God will be angry with them for ever.

John 5:24

I tell you for certain that everyone who hears my message and has faith in the one who sent me has eternal life and will never be condemned. They have already gone from death to life.

John 6:33

And the bread that God gives is the one who came down from heaven to give life to the world.”

John 6:35

Jesus replied: I am the bread that gives life! No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. No one who has faith in me will ever be thirsty.

John 6:41

The people started grumbling because Jesus had said he was the bread that had come down from heaven.

John 6:47

I tell you for certain that everyone who has faith in me has eternal life.

John 6:48

I am the bread that gives life!

John 6:50

But the bread from heaven has come down, so that no one who eats it will ever die.

John 7:38

Have faith in me, and you will have life-giving water flowing from deep inside you, just as the Scriptures say.”

2 Corinthians 5:19

What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And he has given us the work of sharing his message about peace.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God.

Ephesians 5:2

Let love be your guide. Christ loved us and offered his life for us as a sacrifice that pleases God.

Ephesians 5:25

A husband should love his wife as much as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself to rescue us from everything that is evil and to make our hearts pure. He wanted us to be his own people and to be eager to do right.

Hebrews 10:20

by a new way that leads to life! And this way takes us through the curtain that is Christ himself.

1 Peter 2:4

Come to Jesus Christ. He is the living stone that people have rejected, but which God has chosen and highly honoured.

1 John 2:2

Christ is the sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of all the world's people.

1 John 4:10

Real love isn't our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven.

1 John 4:14

God sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. We saw his Son and are now telling others about him.