John 8:42 “Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I…”

John 8:42

Jesus 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

World English Bible

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

American Standard Version

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore Iesus sayde vnto them, If God were your Father, then woulde ye loue mee: for I proceeded foorth, and came from God, neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.

Darby Translation

Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come [from him]; for neither am I come of myself, but he has sent me.

Young's Literal Translation

Jesus then said to them, 'If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

Bible in Basic English

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

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Cross references

“If”

Malachi 1:6 1 Corinthians 16:22 John 5:23 John 15:23 John 15:24 1 John 5:1

Malachi 1:6 · BSB

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How…

1 Corinthians 16:22 · BSB

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!

John 5:23 · BSB

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

John 15:23 · BSB

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

John 15:24 · BSB

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

1 John 5:1 · BSB

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

“for”

John 17:8 John 17:25 John 1:14 Revelation 22:1 John 16:27 John 16:28

John 17:8 · BSB

For 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.

John 17:25 · BSB

Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

John 1:14 · BSB

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Revelation 22:1 · BSB

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

John 16:27 · BSB

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

John 16:28 · BSB

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

“neither”

John 12:49 John 14:10 1 John 4:14 John 5:43 Galatians 4:4 John 7:28

John 12:49 · BSB

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 · BSB

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.

1 John 4:14 · BSB

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

John 5:43 · BSB

I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Galatians 4:4 · BSB

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

John 7:28 · BSB

Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

Also

John 3:17

John 3:17 · BSB

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

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

In context

41You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

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