John 6:40

It is the Father's will that everyone who sees and believes in the Son have eternal life and be raised up. The verse joins God's sovereign will with the call to personal faith.

Cross-references · 31

• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• John 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• John 3:15–18that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
• Luke 2:30for my eyes have seen your salvation,
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• John 12:45He who sees me sees him who sent me.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 14:19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
• 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• 1 Jn 5:11–13The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Isa 45:21–22Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
• Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• John 8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”
• Isa 53:2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
• Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• John 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
• Heb 11:1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
• Heb 11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• John 6:35–37Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
• John 14:17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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