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 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• John 6:54Whoever 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. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• John 3:15–18that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
• John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
• Luke 2:30For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
• John 6:27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
• John 12:45And whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 14:19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
• 1 Jn 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
• 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• Isa 45:21–22Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
• Isa 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
• John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• John 8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
• Isa 53:2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
• Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
• 1 Pet 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• Jude 1:21keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
• Rom 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 2 Cor 4:6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• John 12:50And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
• Heb 11:1Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
• Heb 11:27By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
• John 6:35–37Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
• John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

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