John 8:38 Cross References

John 8:38

38: I am telling you what I saw when I was with my Father. But you are following the advice of your father."

Jesus replied, "I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

No, you are obeying your real father when you act that way." They replied, "We were not born out of wedlock! Our true Father is God himself."

For you are the children of your father the Devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning and has always hated the truth. There is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.

But I do nothing without consulting the Father. I judge as I am told. And my judgment is absolutely just, because it is according to the will of God who sent me; it is not merely my own.

Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.

Anyone who doesn't love me will not do what I say. And remember, my words are not my own. This message is from the Father who sent me.

I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but I won't. For I say only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he is true."

But when people keep on sinning, it shows they belong to the Devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy these works of the Devil.
Those who have been born into God's family do not sin, because God's life is in them. So they can't keep on sinning, because they have been born of God.
So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the Devil. Anyone who does not obey God's commands and does not love other Christians does not belong to God.

I don't speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me gave me his own instructions as to what I should say.
And I know his instructions lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say!"

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he denounced them. "You brood of snakes!" he exclaimed. "Who warned you to flee God's coming judgment?

for I have passed on to them the words you gave me; and they accepted them and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.

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