John 8:41 - Easy To Read Version So you are doing the things your own father did.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You are doing the works of your [own] father. They said to Him, We are not illegitimate children and born out of fornication; we have one Father, even God. American Standard Version (1901) Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Common English Bible You are doing your father’s works.” They said, “Our ancestry isn’t in question! The only Father we have is God!” Catholic Public Domain Version You do the works of your father." Therefore, they said to him: "We were not born out of fornication. We have one father: God." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. |
Look! You are our father!\par Abraham doesn’t know us.\par Israel (Jacob) does not recognize us.\par Lord, you are our father!\par You are the One who has always saved us!\par
But Lord, you are our father.\par We are like clay.\par And you are the potter. {\cf2\super [464]} \par Your hands made us all.\par
“I, the Lord, said to myself,\par ‘I want to treat you like my own children.\par I want to give you a pleasant land,\par a land more beautiful\par than any other nation.’\par I thought that you would call me ‘Father.’\par I thought that you would always follow me.\par
\{God says,\}\par “You know that Ephraim {\cf2\super [255]} is my dear son.\par I love that child.\par Yes, I often criticized Ephraim,\par but I still think about him.\par I love him very much.\par And I really do want to comfort him.”\par This message is from the Lord.\par
This was the Lord’s first message to Hosea. The Lord said, “Go, marry a prostitute {\cf2\super [1]} that has had children as a result of her prostitution. Why? Because the people in this country have acted like prostitutes—they have been unfaithful to the Lord.”
The Lord All-Powerful said, “Children honor their father. Servants honor their masters. I am your Father, so why don’t you honor me? I am your Master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests don’t respect my name.”
The people of Judah cheated other people. People in Jerusalem and Israel did terrible things! God loves the temple. {\cf2\super [13]} But the people in Judah didn’t respect the Lord’s holy temple. The people of Judah began to worship that foreign goddess!
I am telling you what my Father has shown me. But you do the things that your father has told you.”
Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.
“You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
Is that the way you should pay back the Lord {for all that he did for you? No!} You are stupid, foolish people. The Lord is your Father. He made you. He is your Creator. He supports you.
Don’t be like Cain. {\cf2\super [10]} Cain belonged to the Evil One (the devil). Cain killed his brother \{Abel {\cf2\super [11]} \}. But why did Cain kill his brother? Because the things Cain did were evil, and the things his brother \{Abel\} did were good.