John 8:47

Weymouth NT

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children.«

Cross References

John 12:48

He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

John 18:37

»So then you are a king!« rejoined Pilate. »Yes,« said Jesus, »you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world–to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice.«

John 5:25

»In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming –nay, has already come– when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.«

John 6:65

So He added, »That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father.«

John 8:37

You are descendants of Abraham, I know; but you want to kill me, because my teaching gains no ground within you.

John 8:43

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

John 8:45

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

1 John 3:10

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

1 John 5:1

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father loves also Him who is the Father's Child.

2 John 1:9

No one has God, who instead of remaining true to the teaching of Christ, presses on in advance: but he who remains true to that teaching has both the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, do not follow wrong examples, but right ones. He who habitually does what is right is a child of God: he who habitually does what is wrong has not seen God.