John 4:24

God [is] Spirit, and those worshiping Him should worship in spirit and truth.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

In Context

23but there comes an hour, and it now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him;

25The woman says to Him, “I have known that Messiah comes, who is called Christ, when that One may come, He will tell us all things”;

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Cross References

Psalms 50:13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, || And drink the blood of male goats?

Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, || A heart broken and bruised, O God, || You do not despise.

Isaiah 57:15For thus said the high and exalted One, || Inhabiting eternity, and His Name [is] holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, || And with the bruised and humble of spirit, || To revive the spirit of the humble, || And to revive the heart of bruised ones,

2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

Philippians 3:3For we are the circumcision, who are serving God by the Spirit, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and having no trust in flesh,

Matthew Henry on John 4:5-27

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria… Read the whole commentary →

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