John 3:27 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

²⁷ John replied, “A person cannot receive anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

Common English Bible

²⁷ John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it is given from heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ John responded and said: "A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

John 3:27 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 21:25

Where did John's authority to baptize come from? From heaven or from men?” So they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Matthew 25:15

To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent, to each according to his ability. And he immediately went on his journey.

Mark 13:34

It is like a man away on a journey: When he leaves his house and gives authority to his servants, assigning to each one his task, he also commands the doorkeeper to keep watch.

John 10:41

Many came to him and were saying, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”

John 6:65

Then he said, “That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father.”

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,

Romans 12:6

We have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If someone's gift is prophecy, he should prophesy in proportion to his faith;

1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

1 Corinthians 12:11

All these gifts are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who distributes to each person individually just as he wills.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each?

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who regards yoʋ as superior? What do yoʋ have that yoʋ did not receive? And if yoʋ received it, why do yoʋ boast as though yoʋ did not receive it?

Galatians 1:1

Paul, an apostle—appointed not by men nor through man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Ephesians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

1 Timothy 2:7

For this testimony I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (I am speaking the truth in Christ; I am not lying.)

James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.