John 6:57

Good News Translation

The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.

Cross References

Psalm 18:46

The Lord lives! Praise my defender! Proclaim the greatness of the God who saves me.

Jeremiah 10:10

But you, Lord, are the true God, you are the living God and the eternal king. When you are angry, the world trembles; the nations cannot endure your anger. (

Matthew 16:16

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

John 14:19

In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.

John 14:6

Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

John 17:21

I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

John 3:17

For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.

John 5:26

Just as the Father is himself the source of life, in the same way he has made his Son to be the source of life.

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent.”

John 6:38

because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

1 Corinthians 15:22

For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:45

For the scripture says, “The first man, Adam, was created a living being”; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For even though it was in weakness that he was put to death on the cross, it is by God's power that he lives. In union with him we also are weak; but in our relations with you we shall share God's power in his life.

Galatians 2:20

so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God

Hebrews 9:14

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.

1 John 4:9

And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.