John 5:19

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John 5:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

18 Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

19 So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

20 The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

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John 5:24

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

John 5:25

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

John 3:3

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

John 5:30

I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

John 8:28

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

John 9:4

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

John 12:49

I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

John 14:20

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

John 14:16

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

John 14:17

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

John 14:18

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

John 14:19

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

John 14:21

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

John 14:22

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

Colossians 1:16

For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Psalms 50:6

And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

John 2:19

Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

John 10:18

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

Acts 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Romans 6:4

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 15:12

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

Ephesians 1:18

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 1:19

and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

John 5:28

Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

John 5:29

and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

John 11:26

And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Romans 8:11

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.

Philippians 3:21

who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

Psalms 27:14

Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

Psalms 138:3

On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

Isaiah 45:24

Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

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And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

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For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

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For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

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I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Revelation 2:23

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.