John 8:42

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

Malachi 1:6

The Lord All-Powerful says, “A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master.” I am a father, so why don’t you honor me? I am a master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests do not respect me. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown you disrespect?’

John 1:14

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

John 12:49

The things I taught were not from myself. The Father who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

John 13:3

Jesus knew that the Father had given him power over everything and that he had come from God and was going back to God.

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 16:30

We can see now that you know all things. You can answer a person’s question even before it is asked. This makes us believe you came from God.”

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these people know you sent me.

John 17:8

I gave them the teachings you gave me, and they accepted them. They knew that I truly came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

John 3:17

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

John 5:23

so that all people will honor the Son as much as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 5:43

I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when another person comes, speaking only for himself, you will accept him.

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Yes, I am saying these things about myself, but they are true. I know where I came from and where I am going. But you don’t know where I came from or where I am going.

1 Corinthians 16:22

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

Galatians 4:4

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

1 John 4:14

We have seen and can testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we can know the True One. And our lives are in the True One and in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the eternal life.

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life. It was shining like crystal and was flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb