John 3:27

Modern English Version

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Cross References

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And His grace toward me was not in vain. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Amos 7:15

But the Lord took me away from the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’

Matthew 25:15

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his ability. And immediately he took his journey.

Jeremiah 17:16

As for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, nor have I desired the woeful day; You Yourself know that which came out of my lips was in Your presence.

Jeremiah 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you were born I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Numbers 17:5

It will be that the rod of the man whom I choose will bud. Thus I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, that they have been making against you.

1 Timothy 2:7

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ and do not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Matthew 21:25

Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Romans 12:6

We have diverse gifts according to the grace that is given to us: if prophecy, according to the proportion of faith;

Mark 13:34

For the Son of Man is like a man leaving on a far journey who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Ephesians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Galatians 1:1

Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

1 Corinthians 12:11

But that one and very same Spirit works all these, dividing to each one individually as He will.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?

Romans 1:5

Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all nations for His name,

1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,

John 6:65

Then He said, “For this reason I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it were given him by My Father.”

John 10:41

Many came to Him and said, “John did no sign. But everything that John said about this Man was true.”