John 8:47

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Anyone who belongs to God will listen to his message. But you refuse to listen, because you don't belong to God.

Cross References

Daniel 12:10

Many people will have their hearts and lives made pure and clean, but those who are evil will keep on being evil and never understand. Only the wise will understand.

John 12:48

But everyone who rejects me and my teachings will be judged on the last day by what I have said.

John 18:37

“So you are a king,” Pilate replied. “You are saying that I am a king,” Jesus told him. “I was born into this world to tell about the truth. And everyone who belongs to the truth knows my voice.”

John 5:25

I tell you for certain that the time will come, and it is already here, when all the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen to it will live!

John 6:65

Then Jesus said, “You cannot come to me, unless the Father makes you want to come. That is why I have told these things to all of you.”

John 8:37

I know that you are from Abraham's family. Yet you want to kill me, because my message isn't really in your hearts.

John 8:43

Why can't you understand what I am talking about? Can't you stand to hear what I am saying?

John 8:45

Everything I have told you is true, and you still refuse to have faith in me.

1 John 3:10

You can tell God's children from the devil's children, because those who belong to the devil refuse to do right or to love each other.

1 John 5:1

If we believe that Jesus is truly Christ, we are God's children. Everyone who loves the Father will also love his children.

2 John 1:9

Don't keep changing what you were taught about Christ, or else God will no longer be with you. But if you hold firmly to what you were taught, both the Father and the Son will be with you.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, don't copy the evil deeds of others! Follow the example of people who do kind deeds. They are God's children, but those who are always doing evil have never seen God.