John 5:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

Psalm 96:13

before the Lord, for he is coming, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his truth.

Isaiah 28:6

and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Zephaniah 3:15

The Lord has taken away the judgments against you; he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.

Matthew 26:39

And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not what I want but what you want.”

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, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 17:4

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

John 18:11

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 him who sent me and to complete his work.

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own 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 him who sent me.

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

John 8:50

Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

Romans 15:3

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

Romans 2:2

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.