John 8:37

New International Version

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.

Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

Matthew 3:9

And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

John 10:31

Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,

John 11:53

So from that day on they plotted to take his life.

John 5:44

How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 7:1

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him.

John 7:19

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

John 7:25

At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

John 8:33

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”

John 8:43

Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.”

John 8:59

At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.

John 8:6

They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.

Acts 13:26

“Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Romans 9:7

Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

1 John 2:14

I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.