John 6:27

Jesus urges them to labor not for perishable food but for the food that endures to eternal life, which He gives. He redirects their desire from the temporary to the eternal.

Cross-references · 40

• Col 3:2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
• Isa 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
• John 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• Matt 6:19“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
• John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• John 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven — not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
• Prov 2:2–6So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
• Eccl 6:7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
• 2 Pet 1:17For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
• John 5:36–37But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
• John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• John 4:13–14Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
• 2 Pet 3:11–14Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
• John 3:33He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
• Col 1:29for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
• John 6:28–29They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Luke 4:18–21“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Ps 2:7I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
• 1 Cor 6:13“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• Acts 2:22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
• Luke 9:35A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”
• Matt 6:31–33“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
• 2 Cor 4:18while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
• Heb 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
• John 1:33–34I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
• Ps 40:7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• Luke 10:40–42But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

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