John 5:30

God's Word

I can’t do anything on my own. As I listen ⌞to the Father⌟, I make my judgments. My judgments are right because I don’t try to do what I want but what the one who sent me wants.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

It would be unthinkable for you to do such a thing, to treat the innocent and the guilty alike and to kill the innocent with the guilty. That would be unthinkable! Won’t the judge of the whole earth do what is fair?”

Psalm 96:13

in the Lord’s presence because he is coming. He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and its people with his truth.

Isaiah 28:6

He will give a spirit of justice to those who judge. He will give strength to those who defend the city gates in battle.

Zephaniah 3:15

The Lord has reversed the judgments against you. He has forced out your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is with you. You will never fear disaster again.

Matthew 26:39

After walking a little farther, he quickly bowed with his face to the ground and prayed, “Father, if it’s possible, let this cup ⌞of suffering⌟ be taken away from me. But let your will be done rather than mine.”

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? What I’m telling you doesn’t come from me. The Father, who lives in me, does what he wants.

John 17:4

On earth I have given you glory by finishing the work you gave me to do.

John 18:11

Jesus told Peter, “Put your sword away. Shouldn’t I drink the cup ⌞of suffering⌟ that my Father has given me?”

John 4:34

Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.

John 5:19

Jesus said to the Jews, “I can guarantee this truth: The Son cannot do anything on his own. He can do only what he sees the Father doing. Indeed, the Son does exactly what the Father does.

John 6:38

I haven’t come from heaven to do what I want to do. I’ve come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

John 8:28

So Jesus told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you’ll know that I am the one and that I can’t do anything on my own. Instead, I speak as the Father taught me.

John 8:42

Jesus told them, “If God were your Father, you would love me. After all, I’m here, and I came from God. I didn’t come on my own. Instead, God sent me.

John 8:50

I don’t want my own glory. But there is someone who wants it, and he is the judge.

Romans 15:3

Christ did not think only of himself. Rather, as Scripture says, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

Romans 2:2

We know that God’s judgment is right when he condemns people for doing these things.

Romans 2:5

Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.