John 7:17
Anyone who chooses to follow what God wants will know if my teaching comes from God or if I'm only speaking for myself.
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16Jesus answered, “My teaching is not from me but from the one who sent me.
Cross References
Psalms 25:8The Lord is good and he is right; that is why he shows the way to those who are lost.
Psalms 25:14The Lord is friends with those who respect him, explaining to them his agreement.
Psalms 119:101I avoid any course of action that leads to evil, because I want to remain faithful to your word.
Jeremiah 31:33But this is the agreement I'm going to make with the people of Israel at that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws inside them and write them in their minds. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Hosea 6:3Let's get to know the Lord, really strive to know him, and he will appear to us as surely as the sun will rise; he will come to us as certainly as the spring rains fall on the earth.”
Malachi 4:2But for those who have reverence for me, the sun of God's salvation will rise with healing in its wings, and you will be set free, leaping like calves released from their stalls.
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →