John 7:16

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John 7:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”

16 “My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me.

17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.

18 He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

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John 3:31

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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 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 12:50

And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

John 14:10

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John 14:24

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John 17:8

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John 17:14

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John 5:24

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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 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

John 6:39

And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

John 6:40

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:44

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.