John 8:47

God's Word

The person who belongs to God understands what God says. You don’t understand because you don’t belong to God.”

Cross References

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made white, and refined. But wicked people will do wicked things, and none of them will understand. Only wise people will understand.

John 12:48

Those who reject me by not accepting what I say have a judge appointed for them. The words that I have spoken will judge them on the last day.

John 18:37

Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus replied, “You’re correct in saying that I’m a king. I have been born and have come into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

John 5:25

“I can guarantee this truth: A time is coming (and is now here) when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who respond to it will live.

John 6:65

So he added, “That is why I told you that people cannot come to me unless the Father provides the way.”

John 8:37

I know that you’re Abraham’s descendants. However, you want to kill me because you don’t like what I’m saying.

John 8:43

Why don’t you understand the language I use? Is it because you can’t understand the words I use?

John 8:45

So you don’t believe me because I tell the truth.

1 John 3:10

This is the way God’s children are distinguished from the devil’s children. Everyone who doesn’t do what is right or love other believers isn’t God’s child.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God. Everyone who loves the Father also loves his children.

2 John 1:9

Everyone who doesn’t continue to teach what Christ taught doesn’t have God. The person who continues to teach what Christ taught has both the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, never imitate evil, but imitate good. The person who does good is from God. The person who does evil has never seen God.