If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
Parallel translations
- KJV If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
- BSB If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.
- NKJV If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
- NASB If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
- NLT Don’t believe me unless I carry out my Father’s work.
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Cross-references · 7
- John 15:24If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
- John 10:25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
- John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
- Matt 11:20–24Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
- John 12:37–40But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
- John 10:32Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
- John 5:31“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
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