John 5:30

New Century Version

“I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told, so my judgment is fair. I don’t try to please myself, but I try to please the One who sent me.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Surely you will not destroy the good people along with the evil ones; then they would be treated the same. You are the judge of all the earth. Won’t you do what is right?”

Psalm 96:13

before the Lord, because he is coming. He is coming to judge the world; he will judge the world with fairness and the peoples with truth.

Isaiah 28:6

Then he will give wisdom to the judges who must decide cases and strength to those who battle at the city gate.

Zephaniah 3:15

The Lord has stopped punishing you; he has sent your enemies away. The King of Israel, the Lord, is with you; you will never again be afraid of being harmed.

Matthew 26:39

After walking a little farther away from them, Jesus fell to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, do not give me this cup of suffering. But do what you want, not what I want.”

John 14:10

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you don’t come from me, but the Father lives in me and does his own work.

John 17:4

Having finished the work you gave me to do, I brought you glory on earth.

John 18:11

Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back. Shouldn’t I drink the cup the Father gave me?”

John 4:34

Jesus said, “My food is to do what the One who sent me wants me to do and to finish his work.

John 5:19

But Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees the Father doing, because the Son does whatever the Father does.

John 6:38

I came down from heaven to do what God wants me to do, not what I want to do.

John 8:28

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that I am he. You will know that these things I do are not by my own authority but that I say only what the Father has taught me.

John 8:42

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

John 8:50

I am not trying to get honor for myself. There is One who wants this honor for me, and he is the judge.

Romans 15:3

Even Christ did not live to please himself. It was as the Scriptures said: “When people insult you, it hurts me.”

Romans 2:2

God judges those who do wrong things, and we know that his judging is right.

Romans 2:5

But you are stubborn and refuse to change, so you are making your own punishment even greater on the day he shows his anger. On that day everyone will see God’s right judgments.