John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
28Therefore, they said to him, “What should we do, so that we may labor in the works of God?”
Cross References
Psalms 2:7The Lord has said to me: You are my son, this day have I begotten you.
Proverbs 2:2so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.
Ecclesiastes 6:7Every labor of man is for his mouth, but his soul will not be filled.
Isaiah 42:1Behold my servant, I will uphold him, my elect, with him my soul is well-pleased. I have sent my Spirit upon him. He will offer judgment to the nations.
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,
Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things before the Lord of hosts? For the people will labor amid a great fire, and the nations will labor in emptiness, and they will fail.
Matthew Henry on John 6:23-28
Christ's Discourse with the Multitude. 22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; 23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) 24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his… Read the whole commentary →