John 8:47
Anyone who belongs to God listens to what God says. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
In Context
48“Aren't we right to call you a Samaritan who is demon-possessed?” said the Jews.
Cross References
John 6:45As is written in Scripture by the prophets, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to and learns from the Father comes to me.
John 8:37I know you're Abraham's descendants, yet you're trying to kill me because you refuse to accept my words.
John 8:45So because I tell you the truth, you don't believe me!
John 17:6I have revealed your character to those you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you; you gave them to me; and they have done what you said.
1 John 3:10This is how God's children and the devil's children can be distinguished: all those who don't do what's right don't belong to God, nor do those who don't love their fellow Christians.
1 John 5:1Whoever trusts that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the father also loves his child.
Matthew Henry on John 8:39-48
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even… Read the whole commentary →