John 8:41 “You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate chil…”

John 8:41

You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

World English Bible

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

American Standard Version

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

Darby Translation

Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

Young's Literal Translation

ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have — God;'

Bible in Basic English

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

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Cross references

“do”

John 8:38 John 8:44

John 8:38 · BSB

I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

John 8:44 · BSB

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native langua…

“We be”

Malachi 2:11 Isaiah 57:3–7 Ezekiel 23:45–47 Hosea 1:2 Hosea 2:2–5

Malachi 2:11 · BSB

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

Isaiah 57:3–7 · BSB

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Ezekiel 23:45–47 · BSB

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

Hosea 1:2 · BSB

When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”

Hosea 2:2–5 · BSB

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

“we have”

Isaiah 64:8 Isaiah 63:16 Exodus 4:22 Deuteronomy 14:1 Jeremiah 3:19 Jeremiah 31:20

Isaiah 64:8 · BSB

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Isaiah 63:16 · BSB

Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

Exodus 4:22 · BSB

Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

Deuteronomy 14:1 · BSB

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

Jeremiah 3:19 · BSB

Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

Jeremiah 31:20 · BSB

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

Also

Deuteronomy 32:6

Deuteronomy 32:6 · BSB

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

40But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.

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