John 6:63

Jesus says the Spirit gives life, the flesh profits nothing, and His words are spirit and life. He directs them away from a fleshly, literal reading toward spiritual understanding.

Cross-references · 28

• Gal 5:25Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Ps 119:93I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
• John 6:68Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• Ps 119:130The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.
• Ps 119:50This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
• 1 Pet 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
• Deut 32:47For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
• 1 Cor 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
• Rom 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
• 2 Cor 3:6–8And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Rom 10:8–10But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:
• Ps 19:7–10The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
• John 12:49–50I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.
• Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• 1 Th 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
• Gen 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
• Rom 3:1–2What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
• 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• 1 Tim 4:8For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
• 1 Cor 2:9–14Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
• Gal 6:15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
• 1 Cor 11:27–29Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
• Rom 2:25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Heb 13:9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

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