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John 8:47
John 8:47 is verse 47 of John chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
King James Version
He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
World English Bible
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
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John 8:45–49 · Berean Standard Bible
45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
46 Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?
47 Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
48 The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”
49 “I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
John 8:37I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
John 8:45But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
John 1:12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
John 6:46not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
John 6:65Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
John 10:26But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
John 17:6I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
John 17:7Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.
John 17:8For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
1 John 3:10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:2By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
1 John 4:3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.
1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
2 John 1:9Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
3 John 1:11Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.