John 8:47

New Century Version

The person who belongs to God accepts what God says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”

Cross References

Daniel 12:10

Many people will be made clean, pure, and spotless, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. Those wicked people will not understand these things, but the wise will understand them.

John 12:48

There is a judge for those who refuse to believe in me and do not accept my words. The word I have taught will be their judge on the last day.

John 18:37

Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus answered, “You are the one saying I am a king. This is why I was born and came into the world: to tell people the truth. And everyone who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

John 5:25

I tell you the truth, the time is coming and is already here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will have life.

John 6:65

Jesus said, “That is the reason I said, ‘If the Father does not bring a person to me, that one cannot come.’ ”

John 8:37

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

John 8:43

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

John 8:45

But because I speak the truth, you don’t believe me.

1 John 3:10

So we can see who God’s children are and who the devil’s children are: Those who do not do what is right are not God’s children, and those who do not love their brothers and sisters are not God’s children.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is God’s child, and whoever loves the Father also loves the Father’s children.

2 John 1:9

Anyone who goes beyond Christ’s teaching and does not continue to follow only his teaching does not have God. But whoever continues to follow the teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, do not follow what is bad; follow what is good. The one who does good belongs to God. But the one who does evil has never known God.