John 8:42

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

Cross References

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised thy name?’

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.

John 12:49

For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak.

John 13:3

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 16:30

Now we know that you know all things, and need none to question you; by this we believe that you came from God.”

John 17:25

O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.

John 17:8

for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 3:17

For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

John 5:23

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true, for I know whence I have come and whither I am going, but you do not know whence I come or whither I am going.

1 Corinthians 16:22

If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Revelation 22:1

Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb