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 10:16He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
• Heb 9:27–28And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• Rom 2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
• 2 Th 1:8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• John 11:24Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
• John 3:17–20For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• Heb 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
• Heb 10:29–31Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
• Deut 18:18–19I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
• Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• John 5:45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
• 1 Sam 10:19And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
• Heb 2:3How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• Matt 21:42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
• Luke 9:22Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
• Luke 17:25But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
• Luke 9:26For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
• Matt 25:31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
• 1 Sam 8:7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
• Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
• Luke 20:17And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
• Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
• Acts 3:23And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
• Mark 12:10And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
• 2 Cor 4:3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
• 2 Cor 2:15–16For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
• Mark 8:31And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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