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John 12:50
John 12:50 is verse 50 of John chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
King James Version
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
World English Bible
I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
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John 12:48–50 · Berean Standard Bible
48 There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
1 Timothy 1:16But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
1 John 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
1 John 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
1 John 3:24Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
1 John 5:11And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1 John 5:12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:13I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.