John 5:38
You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
World Messianic Bible
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
Cross References
Joshua 1:8This scroll of the Torah shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Isaiah 49:7The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
John 5:42But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
John 8:37I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
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 →