John 8:47

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”

Cross References

2 John 1:9

Everyone must continue to follow only the teaching about Christ. Whoever changes that teaching does not have God. But whoever continues to follow the teaching about Christ has both the Father and his Son.

John 18:37

Pilate said, “So you are a king.” Jesus answered, “You are right to say that I am a king. I was born for this: to tell people about the truth. That is why I came into the world. And everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are. These are the ones who are not God’s children: those who don’t do what is right and those who do not love their brothers and sisters in God’s family.

John 8:45

“I am telling you the truth, and that’s why you don’t believe me.

John 8:37

I know you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because you don’t want to accept my teaching.

John 8:43

You don’t understand the things I say, because you cannot accept my teaching.

John 6:65

Jesus said, “That is why I said, ‘Anyone the Father does not help to come to me cannot come.’”

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, don’t follow what is bad; follow what is good. Whoever does what is good is from God. But whoever does evil has never known God.

1 John 5:1

The people who believe that Jesus is the Messiah are God’s children. Anyone who loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made pure—they will make themselves clean. But evil people will continue to be evil. And those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise people will understand them.

John 5:25

Believe me, an important time is coming. That time is already here. People who are dead will hear the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live.

John 12:48

But there is a judge for all those who refuse to believe in me and do not accept what I say. The message I have spoken will judge them on the last day.