John 8:42 - Easy To Read Version

⁴² Jesus said to those Jews, “If God were really your Father, then you would love me. I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority. God sent me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me and respect Me and welcome Me gladly, for I proceeded (came forth) from God [out of His very presence]. I did not even come on My own authority or of My own accord (as self-appointed); but He sent Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

Common English Bible

⁴² Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God. Here I am. I haven’t come on my own. God sent me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² Then Jesus said to them: "If God were your father, certainly you would love me. For I proceeded and came from God. For I did not come from myself, but he sent me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded, and came; for I came not of myself, but he sent me:

John 8:42 Tagairtí Cros

Malachi 1:6

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.”

John 1:14

The Word {\cf2\super [5]} became a man and lived among us. We saw his glory—the glory that belongs to the only Son of the Father. The Word was full of grace (kindness) and truth.

John 12:49

Why? Because the things I taught were not from myself. The Father (God) who sent me told me what to say and what to teach.

John 13:3

The Father had given Jesus power over everything. Jesus knew this. Jesus also knew that he had come from God. And he knew that he was going back to God.

John 14:10

Do you truly believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The things I have told you don’t come from me. The Father lives in me, and he is doing his own work.

John 16:30

We can see now that you know all things. You can answer a person’s question even before he asks it. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you. And these people know that you sent me.

John 17:8

I gave these men the teachings that you gave me. They accepted those teachings. They know that I truly came from you. And they believed that you sent me.

John 3:17

God sent his Son into the world. God did not send his Son to judge the world guilty. God sent his Son so that the world could be saved through his Son.

John 5:23

God did this so that all people will respect the Son the same as they respect the Father. If a person does not respect the Son, then that person does not respect the Father. The Father is the One who sent the Son.

John 5:43

I have come from my Father—I speak for him. But you don’t accept me. But when another person comes speaking only for himself, you will accept him.

John 8:14

Jesus answered, “Yes, I am saying these things about myself. But people can believe these things I say. Why? Because I know where I came from. And I know where I am going. But you don’t know where I came from or where I am going.

1 Corinthians 16:22

If any person does not love the Lord, then let that person be separated from God—lost forever!

Galatians 4:4

But when the right time came, God sent his Son. God’s Son was born from a woman. God’s Son lived under the law. {\cf2\super [48]}

1 John 4:14

We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. That is what we tell people now.

1 John 5:20

But, dear friends, use your most holy faith to build yourselves up strong. Pray with the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [10]}

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life. The river was bright like crystal. The river flows from the throne of God and the Lamb.