John 12:48

Those who reject Jesus and His words already have a judge: the very word He spoke will condemn them on the last day. It shows that rejecting Christ's message is itself a verdict.

Cross-references · 27

• Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
• Heb 9:27–28Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• Rom 2:16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
• 2 Th 1:8giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• John 11:24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
• John 3:17–20For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Heb 10:29–31How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• Deut 18:18–19I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
• Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• John 5:45“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
• 1 Sam 10:19But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”
• Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• Matt 21:42Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’
• Luke 9:22saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”
• Luke 17:25But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
• Luke 9:26For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
• Matt 25:31“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
• 1 Sam 8:7Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
• Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
• Luke 20:17But he looked at them, and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?’
• Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• Acts 3:23It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
• Mark 12:10Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
• 2 Cor 4:3Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
• 2 Cor 2:15–16For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• Mark 8:31He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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