John 5:42

The Passion Translation

for I know what kind of people you really are, and I can see that the love of God has found no home in you.

Cross References

Luke 16:15

so Jesus addressed them directly. “You always want to look spiritual in the eyes of others, but you have forgotten the eyes of God, which see what is inside you. The very things that you approve of and applaud are the things God despises.

John 2:25

He needed no one to tell him about human nature, for he fully understood what man was capable of doing.

John 21:17

Then Jesus asked him again, “Peter, son of Jonah, do you have great affection for me?” Peter was saddened by being asked the third time and said, “My Lord, you know everything. You know that I burn with love for you!” Jesus replied, “Then feed my lambs!

John 5:41

“I do not accept the honor that comes from men,

John 5:43

I have come to represent my Father, yet you refuse to embrace me in faith. If someone comes in their own name and with their own agenda, you readily accept him.

John 5:44

Of course you’re unable to believe in me. For you live to enjoy the praises of others and not the praise that comes from the one true God.

John 8:42

Jesus said, “Then if God were really your father, you would love me, for I’ve come from his presence. I didn’t come here on my own, but God sent me to you.

John 8:47

If you really knew God, you would listen, receive, and respond with faith to his words. But since you don’t listen and respond to what he says, it proves you don’t belong to him and you have no room for him in your hearts.”

John 8:55

But in reality, you’ve never embraced him as your own. I know him, and I would be a liar, like yourselves, if I told you anything less than that. I have fully embraced him, and I treasure his every word.

Romans 8:7

In fact, the mind-set focused on the flesh fights God’s plan and refuses to submit to his direction, because it cannot!

1 John 2:15

Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible.

1 John 3:17

If anyone sees a fellow believer in need and has the means to help him, yet shows no pity and closes his heart against him, how is it even possible that God’s love lives in him?

1 John 4:20

Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see?

Revelation 2:23

And I will strike down her followers with a deadly plague. Then all the congregations will realize that I am the one who thoroughly searches the most secret thought and the innermost being. I will give to each one what their works deserve.