John 17:8

Jesus gave the disciples the words the Father gave him, and they received them, knowing he came from God and was sent by him. Faith rests on receiving Christ's word.

Cross-references · 28

• John 17:14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• John 15:15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
• John 16:30Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
• John 16:27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
• John 8:42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
• John 12:49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
• John 17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• 1 Jn 4:14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
• John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• John 17:23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
• John 17:25–26O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
• John 14:10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
• Prov 1:3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
• Eph 3:2–8If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
• John 17:6–7I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
• Matt 13:11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
• 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• 1 Cor 15:1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
• Prov 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
• John 17:18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
• Prov 1:23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
• John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• 1 Cor 11:23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
• John 3:33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
• Prov 4:10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
• Eph 4:11–12And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
• Prov 2:1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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