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But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
John 5:34 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
  • BSB Even though I do not accept human testimony, I say these things so that you may be saved.
  • ESV Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
  • NKJV Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved.
  • NASB But the testimony I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
  • NLT Of course, I have no need of human witnesses, but I say these things so you might be saved.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • 1 Tim 4:16Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
  • 1 Jn 5:9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.
  • Luke 19:41–42When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
  • John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • 1 Tim 2:3–4For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
  • 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • John 5:41I don’t receive glory from men.
  • Rom 10:1Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
  • John 8:54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
  • Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Rom 3:3For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
  • Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
  • Rom 10:21But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
  • Rom 12:21Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  • Luke 13:34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

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