John 8:42

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus said to them, “If God were really your Father, you would love me. I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority. God sent me.

Cross References

John 12:49

That is because what I taught was not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The things I have told you don’t come from me. The Father lives in me, and he is doing his own work.

John 17:8

I told them the words you gave me, and they accepted them. They realized the fact that I came from you and believed that you sent me.

John 17:25

Father, you are the one who always does what is right. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these followers of mine know that you sent me.

Malachi 1:6

The Lord All-Powerful said, “Children honor their fathers. Servants honor their masters. I am your Father, so why don’t you honor me? I am your master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests don’t respect my name. “But you say, ‘What have we done that shows we don’t respect your name?’

John 1:14

The Word became a man and lived among us. We saw his divine greatness—the greatness that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace and truth.

1 John 4:14

We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world, and this is what we tell people now.

John 5:43

I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when other people come speaking only for themselves, you accept them.

1 Corinthians 16:22

If anyone does not love the Lord, let that person be separated from God—lost forever! Come, O Lord!

John 3:17

God sent his Son into the world. He did not send him to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him.

John 5:23

God did this so that all people will respect the Son the same as they respect the Father. Anyone who does not respect the Son does not respect the Father. He is the one who sent the Son.

Revelation 22:1

The angel showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal. The river flows from the throne of God and the Lamb.

Galatians 4:4

But when the right time came, God sent his Son, who was born from a woman and lived under the law.

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Yes, I am saying these things about myself. But people can believe what I say, because I know where I came from. And I know where I am going. But you don’t know where I came from or where I am going.

John 13:3

The Father had given Jesus power over everything. Jesus knew this. He also knew that he had come from God. And he knew that he was going back to God.

John 16:30

We can see now that you know all things. You answer our questions even before we ask them. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding. So now we can know the one who is true, and we live in that true God. We are in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and he is eternal life.