John 5:31

If I bear witness to myself, my witness is not true.

Revised King James New Testament

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If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

In Context

30I can do nothing by myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

32There is another who bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he bears of me is true.

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Cross References

John 8:13Therefore, the Pharisees said to him, You bear testimony of yourself; your testimony is not true.

Revelation 3:14And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Matthew Henry on John 5:18-31

Christ's Discourse with the Jews; All Judgment Committed to Christ; The Christian Charter. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth… Read the whole commentary →

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