John 5:38

Furthermore, you have not believed in me, the one he sent. So you have not believed his message in your inner beings.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

In Context

37Furthermore, my Father, who sent me, tells people about me. You have never heard his voice or seen him.

39You carefully study (OR, Study) the Scriptures, because you think that by studying them you will find the way to have eternal life. And those Scriptures tell people about me!

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8Make sure to habitually read to the people some of the laws that God gave Moses. Meditate on those laws every day and every night. And be sure to obey all those laws. If you do that, you will be successful in everything that you do [DOU].

Proverbs 2:1My son, listen to what I say, and consider my instructions to be as valuable as [MET] a treasure.

Isaiah 49:7Yahweh, the one who saves us, the Holy God of us Israeli people, says to the one who was despised and rejected by the people of many nations, the one who is the slave of rulers, “ Some day kings will stand up to respect you when they see you, and princes will bow down before you because you serve me, Yahweh, the one who faithfully does what I promise. I am the Holy God to whom you Israelis belong, the one who has chosen you.”

John 1:11Although he came to the land that belonged to him because he created it, most of his own people, the Jews, rejected him (OR, did not accept him).

John 5:42But you want people to praise you. I know that within yourselves you do not love God.

John 8:37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you are trying to kill me because you are not allowing [PRS] my message to continue to change your inner being.

Matthew Henry on John 5:32-47

Christ Proves His Divine Mission; Infidelity of the Jews Reproved. 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. 33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that… Read the whole commentary →

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