John 5:30

New English Translation

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”

Psalm 96:13

before the Lord, for he comes! For he comes to judge the earth! He judges the world fairly, and the nations in accordance with his justice.

Isaiah 28:6

He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.

Zephaniah 3:15

The Lord has removed the judgment against you; he has turned back your enemy. Israel’s king, the Lord, is in your midst! You no longer need to fear disaster.

Matthew 26:39

Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

John 17:4

I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

John 18:11

But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

John 5:19

So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

John 8:28

Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

John 8:42

Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

John 8:50

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Romans 15:3

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

Romans 2:2

Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

Romans 2:5

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!