He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
Parallel translations
- KJV He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
- BSB Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
- ESV Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
- NKJV He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.
- NASB The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
- NLT Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.
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- John 7:16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent 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.
- John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
- John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- John 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
- John 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- 1 Jn 3:16–20By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
- John 5:38You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
- Matt 25:41–46Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- John 8:38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
- John 8:28Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
- John 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
- John 7:28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
- John 12:44–50Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
- 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
- Matt 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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